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THE HOLY YEAR; 



HYMNS 



SUNDAYS AND HOLYDAYS 



THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, 



And for other Occasions, 



Third Edition. 



LONDON : 

RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE. 
1863. 






LONDON : 
GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, 

ST. John's square. 



The Hymns in this Volume^ composed in the 
Diocese of Oxford^ have been allowed and autho- 
rized by the Bishop of the Diocese to be snug in 
Churches and Chapels^ within the Diocese^ in any 
Parish^ the Iruumbent of zuhich ?nay desire to use 
the same. 

Jajiuary i6, 1853. 



CONTENTS. 



Preface ......... v 

Preface to the Third Edition ..... 1 

Calendar of Hymns for Sundays and Holydays . . li 

Calendar of Hymns for Week-Days . . . . Ivi 

Index of Tune-Books ...... Ixiv 

Hymns for Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year i 

Hymns for Other Occasions ..... 270 

Index of First Lines . . . . . -331 

Appendix of Tunes . . . . . . "337 



A 2 



PREFACE. 



Some explanation may be required of the reasons 
which have led to the publication of this volume. 
The following considerations are therefore sub- 
mitted to the reader. 

A primary requisite of a Hymn-Book, whether 
it be designed for Private Use, or for Public 
Worship, seems to be, that it should follow the 
guidance of the Church, and be adjusted to her 
Ritual. A Hymn-Book of the Church may be 
expected to represent the mind of the Church ; 
to show an intelligent appreciation of her inten- 
tions, and a dutiful submission to her appoint- 
ments. A Hymn-Book of the Church of England 
may, perhaps, best be described as a companion 
to the Book of Common Prayer. 

In confirmation of this statement some evi- 
dence may be adduced. 



vi Preface, 

In framing the Book of Common Prayer, the 
Church of England has endeavoured to dispense 
spiritual food to her people in due season. She 
designed to set before them the principal articles 
of Christian Faith and Practice in an orderly 
manner, so that each Season of her year, and 
almost every Sunday and Holyday throughout it, 
should teach its own appropriate lessons of doc- 
trine and duty. 

This proposition may be illustrated by ex- 
amples. 

Let us begin with the first season of the 
Christian year, — that of Advent. 

I. On examining the portions of Holy Scrip- 
ture, which the Church of England has appointed 
to be used on the Four successive Sundays in the 
season of Advent, and on comparing them with 
those prescribed in Ancient Liturgies of the 
Western Church for that season, we find that the • 
Church of England has carefully followed the 
order of the Early Church in this respect, and 
has engrafted into her own Office those parts of 
Holy Scripture which had been used from time 
immemorial at that period of the year. 

Those portions of Holy Scripture relate gene- 
rally to the First and Second Advent of 
Christ, and inculcate the duties consequent on 



Preface. vii 

the First Cojning of Christ to save^ and on His 
Second Coming to judge the world. 

But this is by no means all. The Ancient 
Church reminded her people, that Christ, Who 
came 07ice to save^ and AVho will come again to 
Judge, is ever coming to every member of the 
Church. 

She taught that Christ is et^er coming to every 
Christia?i, in the following ways, viz. 

1. In the Holy Scriptures, which are His 
Word; and 

2. That He is ever coming to every one, by 
the Ministers of that Word and of His Holy 
Sacraments ; and 

3. That He is ever comi7ig to His faithful 
people in the times of their trials and distresses, 
to comfort and deliver them. 

This doctrine of Christ's continual Co7ning to 
every Christian was ever present to the mind of 
the greatest Teachers of the Western Church ^, 
and is embodied in her Liturgies. 

Solomon says, " Give instruction to a wise 
man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a just 
man, and he will increase in learning ^" 

^ See for example the admirable exposition in S. Augustine's 
Epistle to Hesychius, Epist. cxcix. § 25 : Christus usque ad 
iinem saeculi ^venire non cessat. 

2 Prov. ix. 9. 



viii Preface, 

In this respect, as in many others, so it was 
with the Church of England. She has followed 
faithfully in the footsteps of the Ancient Church. 
In the stmcture of her religious offices for the 
season of Advent, she was guided by the exam- 
ple of the Ancient Church ; and, mth reverence 
be it said, she improved upon it. She happily 
caught and appropriated the instructive and com- 
fortable doctrine of Chxi^^ ^ perpetual Commg; — 

1. In Holy Sa'ipfure; 

2. In the Ministry of the Word and Sacra- 
ments j and 

3. In times of trouble; and she gave greater 
clearness and prominence to those doctrines, in 
her Collects and other offices for that season ^ 

She took good care that her people should 
not forget the fundamental truths of Christ's 
First Advent to save, and of His Second Ad- 
vent to Judge the world ; and therefore she set 
in the forefront of the Season of Advent the - 
Collect, " Almighty God, give us grace that we 
may cast away tlie works of darkness, and put 

3 The Collects for the Second and Third Sundays In Advent, 
which give the key-note to the special teaching of those Sun- 
days respectively, and refer to Christ's Coming in the Holy Scrip- 
tures and in the Ministry of the Church, are peculiar to the 
English Liturgy. That for the Second Sunday was composed 
in 1549 J that for the third in 1661. 



Preface. ix 

upon us the armour of light, now in the time of 
this mortal life in which Thy Son Jesus Christ 
came to visit us in great humilit}^ j that in the 
last day, when He shall come again in His glo- 
rious majesty to judge both the quick and dead, 
we may rise to the life immortal, through Him 
who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy 
Ghost, now and ever. Amen." And she or- 
dered that this Collect should be repeated every 
day, together ^^ith the other collects in Advent, 
until Christmas Eve. 

Ha\-ing thus secured the great doctrines of 
Christ's First Advent, which is past, and of 
His Second Advent, which is futiwe, she next 
pro^'ided for the due inculcation of the doctrine 
of His continual Coming ; and she exliorted her 
people to meditate on the three modes in which 
He is ever coming to them j viz. 

1. In Holy Scripture ; 

2. By the Christian Ministry ; 

3. In and by tibials and troubles : and is thus 
ever preparing them for His future Second 
Coming to Judgment. 

The first of these three modes of Christ's 
Coming is brought before their eyes in the Se- 
cond Sunday in Advent, by the Collect " Blessed 
Lord, who hast caused all Holy Scriptures to be 
written for our learning f and by the Epistle, 



X Preface, 

" ^Vhatsoever things were written aforetime, were 
written for our learnings that we through patience 
and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope ;" 
and by the declaration of Christ Himself, at the 
close of the Gospel for that Sunday, " Heaven 
and earth shall pass away, but My words shall 
7iot pass aiuayT 

The second mode of Christ's Coming is pre- 
sented in the Collect for the Third Sunday in 
Advent, " O Lord Jesu Christ, Who at T\vj first 
Coming didst send Thy Messenger to prepare 
Thy way before Thee, grant that the Ministers 
and Stewards of Thy mysteries may likewise so 
prepare and make ready Thy way .... that at 
Thy Second Coming to judge the World, we may 
be found an acceptable people in Thy sight ;" 
and by the Epistle, " Let a man so account of us 
as of the Ministers of Christy and Stewards of 
the mysteries of God.'' 

The Church has also given greater emphasis 
to this doctrine of Christ's continual Comijig in 
His Ministers^ by connecting this Sunday with 
one of her four Ember Seasons^ when she sets 
apart and sends forth persons to " serve in the 
sacred Minist7y of His Churchr 

In the Collect for the Fourth Sunday in Ad- 
vent we are comforted with the assurance, that, 
although " through our manifold sins and wicked- 



P7'eface, xi 

ness we are sore let and hindered in running the 
race that is set before us," yet we may look for 
help and deliverance through Christ. ^' O Lord, 
raise up, we pray Thee, Thy power, and covie 
among us, and ^rith g7raf might succow tisT 
And the Epistle reminds us that the Lord is 
ever " at hand," and that therefore we need not 
be " careful," — or distracted by anxieties, — but 
that in every thing we should resort to God '' by 
prayer, and supplication with thanksgiving, and 
then the peace of God which passeth all under- 
standing will keep our hearts and minds through 
Christ Jesus." 

Let it be remembered that the portions of 
Scripture now appointed in the Church of Eng- 
land for the Epistles and Gospels in the Four 
Sundays in Advent are the same as those which 
have been read in the Church of this land at 
that season for twelve himdred years ^ ; and it 
will readily be allowed that this venerable tradi- 
tion ought to be religiously observed and em- 
bodied in our Hymnolog}\ 

A Church Hymn-Bo ok ought to folloAv the 
guidance of the Church, and to be adapted to 

^ See Mr. Palmer's Origines Liturgicae, pp. 189. 315. 317. 
319 j and Mr. Freeman's Principles of Divine Ser^'ice, ii. 414. 



xii Preface, 

her Services. It ought to be a companion to 
her Prayer-Book. 

Many of our Hymn-Books in common use 
contain some excellent Hymns of a general cha- 
racter for the season of Advent ; but they do 
not profess to supply any Hymns of a special 
kind for the particular Sundays of that season. 
They do not refer to the three modes just specified, 
in which Christ is ever co??ii?ig to His Church. 

Is not this a defect in our Hymnology? 
Whether it has in any degree been supplied in the 
present volume (pp. 4 — 14), must be left to the 
judgment of the reader ; that it ought to be sup- 
plied, no one, it may be presumed, can doubt. 

2. Another deficiency may be pointed out, as 
follows. 

They who have studied the early Christian 
Liturgies, and are conversant with the \\Titings 
of Christian Antiquity, especially wiXh the Ho- " 
mihes of the Fathers on the Seasons of the 
Church, will be thankful to Almighty God for 
the wisdom with which He endued her, so to 
order and arrange her Festivals^ as to bring out, 
in strong relief, the great doctrine of the Licar- 
natio7t of the Son of God, as the source of all 
grace to man in doing and suffering \ and also 
to suggest, as a consequence therefrom, the 



Preface, xiii 

blessed assurance, that, to all those who are in- 
corporated in Christ, and dwell in Him by faith 
and love, Death is 7iot death., but is hirth to 
everlasting life. 

Therefore, the Days on which the Martyrs of 
the Church died for Christ, are called by her 
their Bi7^thdays'%' and those days are happily 
connected by her with Christmas, the Birthday 
of Him Who is the Resurrection and the Life^ 
by Whose Birth in our nature we have entrance 
into Life eternal. 

Accordingly in the ancient ritual of the Western 
Church, the Birthday of Christ, — the Nativity^ of 
'' God with us," "the true and faithful ]\Iart3T V — 
is followed on the morrow by the death-day, or 
rather by the birthday into everlasting life, of the 
first ]\Iart}T, St. Stephen ; and that is succeeded 
by the Festival of St. John the Evangelist ; and 
that again by the Festival of the Innocents ^ 

At the Reformation, the Church of England 
wisely preserved this arrangement, which had 

5 Tej^e^Am, or " Natalitia." Cp. Bingham, Antdq. XX. 
vii. 2. Wheatly on the Common Prayer, c. v. § iii. 

6 Matt. i. 23. Rev. i. 5 5 iii. 14. 

^ In the Greek Church, Christmas (the 25th December) is 
followed, after an interval of one day, by the Festival of St. 
Stephen ; and that Festival is followed by the Festival of the 
Holy Innocents. In the JEthiopic Calendar, the Innocents follow 
on the morrow after Christmas. 



xiv Preface. 

been consecrated by her Ritual for a thousand 
years. 

Thus the Church declares, that Mart}Tdom 
for Christ in will though not in deed, and in 
deed though not in will, leads to birth into end- 
less Hfe, not less than Martyrdom both in will 
and deed ; and that all the graces and blessings 
of every Martyrdom flow fro77i the source and 
wellspring of all Love, in God the Father, and 
through the Birth of the Son of God into our 
human life I Thus, in the words of the judicious 

8 See S. Greg, Nyssen. in S. Stephan. ii. p. 786. This is 
well pointed out by S. Augustine, who thus speaks in one of his 
Sermons, preached on St. Stephen's Day, Serm. 314: ^' Natalem 
Domini hesterno die celebravimus, ser'vi hodie Natalem celebranius, 
sed Natalem Domini celebravimus quo nasci dignatus est j Na- 
talem servi celebramus quo coronatus est. Celebravimus Natalem 
Domini quo indumentum nostras carnis accepit j Natalem servi 
celebramus quo suae carnis indumentum abjecit. Natalem 
Domini celebravimus quo factus est similis nobis j celebramus 
Natalem servi quo factus est proximus Christo. Sicut enim • 
Christus nascendo Stephano, ita Stephanus moriendo conjunctus 
est Christo." 

See also S. Bernard's beautiful observations on the relation of 
the Festivals of St. Stephen, St. John, and the Holy Innocents, 
to the great Festival of Christmas, De Nativitate SS. Innocen- 
tium (Tom. iii. p. 1763, ed. Paris, 1839) : "Benedictus qui venit 
in nomine Domini Deus Dominus et illuxit nobis (Ps. cxviii. 26, 
2-7). Benedictum nomen Ejus quod est sanctum (Daniel iii. 
52). Neque enim otiose venit, quod ex Maria natum est Sanc- 
tum, sed coplose diffundit et nomen et gratiam Sanctitatis. Nimi- 



Preface. xv 

Hooker, the world, ^' by looking upon what the 
Church does., may in a manner read Avhat she 
believes ^" 

Assuredly these glorious truths ought to be 
displayed to the eyes and hearts of all Christian 
Congregations in a Hymn-Book \ and ought to 
be made the subject of praise and thanksgiving 
to Almighty God. 

But this connexion bet^veen Christ's Incarna- 
tion and the glory of the Saints, has not as yet 
found any adequate expression in our H}Tiino- 
logy. 

Here, then, — with all due deference be it said, 
— there seems to be another desideratum ; which 
tlie Author of the present Volume has attempted, 
however imperfectly, to supply (pp. i8 — 24), 

3. Again \ The season of Epiphany, which 

rum inde Stephanus sanctus, inde Joannes sanctus, inde sancti 
etiam Innocentes. Utile proinde dispositione triplex ilia solemnitas 
Natale Domini comitatur^ ut fructus Dominicas Nativitatis exinde 
nobis evidentius innotescat. Siquidem advertere est in his 
tribus solemnitatibus triplicem quandam speciem sanctitatis 5 
nee facile praeter haec tria sanctorum genera quartum aliquod 
arbitror in hominibus reperiri. Habemus in beato Stephano 
martyrii simul opus et voluntatem. Kabemus solam voluntatem 
in beato Joanne 5 solum in beatis Innocentibus opus. Biberunt 
omnes hi calicem salutaris." 
^ Hooker, V. Ixxi. 11. 



xvi Preface, 

succeeds that of Advent and Christmas, affords 
another illustration of what has now been said. 

On the Festival of Epiphany, the Church 
opens that Season by presenting to her people 
the circumstances of Christ's Maiiifestation to 
the Gentiles in His infancy at Bethlehem, in the 
Collect, Gospel, and First Lesson for the morn- 
ing of that day ; and of His Manifestation in 
His Prophetic Office^ in His Baptism in the 
river Jordan, in the Second Lesson for the 
Morning of that Festival ; and of His Manifesta- 
tion in His Godhead, in His first miracle at 
Cana of Galilee, in the Second Lesson for the 
Evening of the same Festival. These glorious 
Manifestations have been displayed to the mind of 
the English Nation in the ancient English Litur- 
gies at the season of Epiphany, year after year, 
for more than twelve centuries. At the Reforma- 
tion, the Church of England gave to them fresh 
dignity and grace, by reading the portions of 
Holy Scripture, which describe them, in the 
mother toiigue of the English people, in the 
Epistles and Gospels of that season. 

Having displayed the lights of Christ's Epi- 
phany, concentrated, as it were, in one focus on 
that great Festival, at the commencement of the 
Season, the Church proceeds afterwards to dis- 
engage them, and to present them sevei^ally and 



Preface. xvii 

successively to the eyes of her people in the Ser- 
vices of the several Sundays of Epiphany. 

Thus she invites and exhorts them to derive 
the special benefits supplied by each manner of 
Christ's Manifestation, for their growth in grace, 
and attainment of glory. And, at length, she 
leads them on to the glorious vision of Christ's 
future great Epiphany at the Day of Judgment, 
when He ivill be made 77ianifest in power, coming 
on the clouds of heaven; and when all men 
must appear^ or be made manifest ^^ before the 
Judgment-seat of Christ ; and then, " when He 
shall appear^' or be 7nade manifest^ they also, 
who are His, ^^ will appear with Him in glory V' 
and at that " Great Epiphany " they '^ will be 
made like Him, for they shall see Him as He is V' 
and He '^ will change their vile bodies that they 
may be made like unto His glorious body"^," 
and they will " be caught up in the clouds to 
meet the Lord in the air, and so be ever with 
the Lord ^" 

The Church of England, following the guidance 
of the ancient Church, has given a systematic 
consistency, and a luminous arrangement to this 



^ (pauepojdriuaiy 2 Cor. v. lo. 

2 Col. iii. 4. 3 I John iil. 2. 

* Phil. iii. 21. ^ I Thess. iv. 17. 

a 



xviii Preface. 

body of Christian Teaching ; first, as already 
said, by bringing together on the Festival of 
Epiphany the three great phases of Christ's 
Manifestation ^ ; and then by distributing those 
various phases, and by assigning them severally 
to successive Sundays and Weeks, and by en- 
larging upon them in due order and degree. 

On the First Sunday after the Epiphany she 
displays to us Christ, in His childhood, manifest 
in the Temple in an act of obedience to His 
Heavenly Father. 

On the Second Sunday after the Epiphany, 
He is manifested in His Godhead at Cana. 

On the Third, He is manifested as the Physi- 
cian of our souls and bodies. 

On the Fourth, He is manifested as our Deli- 
verer from danger. 

On the Fifth, He is manifested as ever over- 
coming our ghostly Enemy, and by giving . us 
power to overcome evil with good. 

On the Sixth Sunday He is manifested as 
coming hereafter to Judgment. 

Here likewise, it may be observed, that the 
Church of England has added to, and com- 
pleted, the work of the Ancient Church, by 

^ Thus S. Ambrose, in his Hymn for the Epiphany, '' Illumi- 
nans altissime,'* enumerates the three Epiphanies ; and S. Bernard, 
Serm. ii. in Epiphania, " Tres cpparitiones Domini legimus," &c. 



Preface. xix 

means of that beautiful Collect, which she 
framed at the last Review of her Liturgy in 
1 66 1, for the Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, 
and by means of the Epistle and Gospel which 
she appointed for that Week ; by which she 
recapitulates and sums up the teaching of the 
whole Season, and most felicitously connects the 
purpose of Christ's y^rj/ Epiphany, which \s past, 
with the glory of His second Epiphany, which is 
future^ and with our own Epiphany, at the Great 
Day of His Coming to judge the world. 

The elaborate spiritual mosaic of the Services 
of this Season may be regarded as an exquisite 
specimen of liturgical beauty and symmetry. 

A Hymn-Book of the Church ought to be 
fitted to the teaching of the Church on the 
Festival itself, and in each successive Week of 
the Season of Epiphany ; and it is by no means 
sufficient to provide Hymns of a gene^^al cha- 
racter for the Season of Epiphany ; and much 
less, to limit the Epiphany to the visit of the Wise 
Men at Bethlehem j but each Sunday in the 
Season should have its distinctive expression of 
praise and thanksgiving for that particular mode of 
Manifestation which the Church has associated 
with that Sunday, and with its following Week. 

Here, again, it must be allowed, is another 
defect in our Hymnology ; and the Author 
a 2 



XX Preface. 

has endeavoured to offer some specimens of the 
manner in which that defect might be suppUed, 
by the Hymns for the Sundays and Weeks of 
that Season, in these pages (pp. 30 — ^2). 

4. Still further ; the outpouring of divine grace 
from heaven on the whole family of man, summed 
up in the Second Adam, Christ Jesus, " God 
manifest in the flesh ^" was the subject which 
filled the mind of the Church with joy and 
thankfulness from the beginning of the Season of 
Advent to the end of the Season of Epiphany. 

This display of our privileges in Christ pro- 
duces a consciousness of duty. The outpouring 
of divine g7^ace on mail is succeeded by a corre- 
lative sense of the need oi human labour ^oxYva^ 
with it. From Advent to Septuagesima we con- 
templated God working y^r us ; and we are next 
called upon to see Him working in us, and by 
us ; and to consider ourselves as " fellow-workers 
with God." 

This then is the doctrine which the Church 
sets before her people in the following season 
from Septuagesima through Lent, until Easter. 

The Creation, the Fall of Man, the judicial 
punishments inflicted by God for sin, in the 
expulsion of Man from Paradise, in the Deluge, 

7 I Tim. iii. 16. 



Preface, xxi 

in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha ; the 
consequent need of faith and godly fear, godly 
sorrow, and repentance, watchfulness, self-denial, 
obedience, and charity, — these find their places, 
in due order and degree, in the Proper Lessons, 
Collects, Epistles, and Gospels of this period. 

The Forty Days of Lent, symbolizing the time 
of trial of man upon earth, and recalling our 
thoughts to the conflict of God's first-born, the 
Man Christ Jesus, in the Wilderness, and to the 
forms of temptation by which Human Nature in 
Him was assailed by Satan, and to the weapons 
by which Christ overcame, bring with them their 
appropriate instruction and encouragement at 
this time. The history also of God's first-born, 
Israel, in the Forty Years' sojourn in the wilder- 
ness, in their way to the promised land ; and the 
sins, and failures, and punishments of the people 
of God in that pilgrimage, — the figure of our 
probation in this world, — contribute their sea- 
sonable warnings during this interval. 

Finally, the circumstances of Passion Week, 
which display the consummation of Humanity 
suifering in Christ, and perfectly obedient in 
Him, and glorified by Suffering and Obedience, 
complete the teaching of the Church concerning 
the necessity of human labour co-operating with 
divine grace. The Hymns from Septuagesima 



xxii Preface. 

to Easter in this volume (pp. 53 — 105) have 
been composed on these principles. 

A reference to the structure and organization 
of the Services of the Church, will best illustrate 
these statements ; and will show with what wis- 
dom the Church of England, Sunday after Sunday, 
and Week after Week, has sought to inculcate 
upon her people the divine precepts of Holy 
Writ, teaching us by the Apostle St. Paul that 
inasmuch as the Son of God " humbled Himself, 
and took on Him the form of a servant, and 
became obedient unto death^ even the death of 
the cross, and therefore God hath highly exalted 
Him, and hath given to Him the Name that is 
above every name, that at the name of Jesus 
every knee should bow," it follows, that all who 
call themselves by His Name, are bound " to 
work out their salvation with fear and trembling, 
for it is God who worketh in us " by reason of 
our incorporation in Christ, ''both to will and to 
do of His good pleasure ^" And again another 
Apostle declares, that since we have " grace and 
peace through the knowledge of God and of 
Jesus our Lord," and since in Him we have 
" exceeding great and precious promises, that by 
these we may be partakers of the divine natiire^^ 

8 Phil. ii. 6—14. 



Ff^eface. xxiii 

thence our duty ensues ; '^ Add to your faith, 
virtue, and to virtue, knowledge, and to know- 
ledge, temperance, and to temperance, patience, 
and to patience, godliness, and to godliness, 
brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, 
charity .... for so an entrance shall be minis- 
tered unto you abundantly into the everlasting 
kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I'' 

5. The Holy Spirit teaches in Scripture by 
means of repetitions and aniplificatioiis. To pro- 
duce greater assurance, the same Prophecies are 
reiterated \ the Ten Commandments are twice 
inculcated in the Old Testament ; the Sermon 
on the Mount, the Lord's Prayer, are presented 
to us twice in the New. 

The Church pursues a similar method. Epi- 
phany repeats and amplifies the warnings and 
encouragements of Advent. And she has also 
two seasons ^ of Forty Days each : the Season 
of Lent, and the Season between Easter and 
x\scension. Both these periods of Forty Days 
are seasons of trial and struggle ending in 
Victory. The former terminates in the triumph 
of Christ, His conquest over Sin, Satan, and 

9 2 Pet. i. 2 — II. 

^ The period of Forty Days often recurs in Holy Scripture as 
a period symbolical of conflict terminating in peace and joy. 
See Augustine, Serm. de Ascensione, cclxiv. 



xxiv Preface. 

the Grave at His Resurrection. Then follows 
another period of Forty Days, which inculcates 
afresh the lessons of Lent with new warnings, 
encouragements, and assurances. Resurrection 
at Easter has its spiritual correlative in the 
Sacrament of Baptism. The Red Sea is passed, 
the Pilgrimage through the wilderness begins, 
with all its spiritual privileges, and its solemn 
judgments. These are presented to the eyes of 
the faithful in the services of the Church during 
that period ^, which issues in the triumphant joys 
of the Ascension, which conducts to a loftier 
eminence than that of Easter, and is followed by 
the gift of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost, and 
by the Vision of heavenly glory in the crowning 
Festival of Trinity Sunday. 

Thus the Church leads us up, as it were, from 
one mountain-ridge of spiritual elevation to 
another j till at length she lands us on tlie cul- 
minating eminence of heavenly glory before the 
Throne of God. 

The Hymns in this volume for the season 
between Easter and Trinity Sunday (pp. 105— 
145) have been framed accordingly. 

6. The present Church of England follows 
the old English use in the next period of time. 

2 See below, Hymns 51 and 52, and the remarks prefixed to 
them (pp. 117 — 120). 



Preface. xxv 

The Roman Church dates the Sundays after 
Trinity Sunday from the Festival of Pentecost ; 
that is to say, the next Sunday after Trinity, is 
the Second Sunday after Fe?itecost ; and she has 
twenty-four Sundays after Pentecost. By this 
designation she happily inculcates the great 
Christian doctrine that all the success of human 
labour depends on divine grace^ bestowed by the 
Pentecostal gift of the Holy Ghost. 

The Church of England no less wisely dates ^ 
those Sundays from the Festival of the Ever- 
Blessed Trinity^ and thus reminds her people of 
the offices of the Three Persons of the Godhead 
in the work of our salvation. 

7. An examination of our liturgical services will 
show the truth of these observations. A minute 
analysis of them would be requisite to exhibit 
it in all its details. Suffxce it to say, in the 

3 This is the ancient usage of the English Church, as may be 
seen in the Sarum Missal j a portion of which has lately been 
published by the Rev. G. H. Forbes. Burntisland, 1861. 

That Volume affords, perhaps, the most interesting proof 
that can be adduced, of the conservative spirit of our English 
Reformers, and supplies the best introduction to the study of the 
structure of the Book of Common Prayer. 

The superiority of the ancient English Service Book to the 
Roman Breviary even in antiquity of arrangement, has been 
well pointed out by the Rev. Philip Freeman, Principles of 
Divine Service, vol. ii. part ii. chap. iii. sect. iv. pp. 412 — 414. 



xxvi Preface, 

words of the late Poet Laureate ^ that, as we 
pass on, 

^' the way before us lies 
Distinct ivith signs, through which in set career 
As through a %odiac, moves the ritual Year 
Of England's Church." 

The Year is truly said by him to be " distinct 
with signs^' and as St. Paul reminds us, it is a 
characteristic of Music to preserve distinctness of 
expression ^ A Hymn-Book ought to endeavour, 
if we may so speak, to represent clearly and 
definitely each of the constellations of this spiri- 
tual Zodiac, in its true form and character, and 
to endeavour to give a hannonious voice to each 
of those spiritual constellations ; so that, as at 
the Creation ''- the morning stars sang together, 
and all the sons of God shouted for joy V' there 
may be a succession of sacred melodies sounding 
in the ear of Faith, like the music of the spheres, 
throughout the whole course of the Christian Year, 
and the words of the Psalmist may be verified, 
"one day telleth another, and one night certi- 
fieth another ; there is neither speech nor lan- 
guage, but their voices are heard among them ; 
their sound is gone out into all lands, and their 
words into the ends of the world ^" 

* Eccles. Sonnets, Pt. iii. Son. xv. ^ i Cor. xiv. 7. 

6 Job xxxviii. 7. '' Ps. xix. 2 — 4. 



Preface, xxvii 

8. Let us pass to another point. 

A great part of the didactic work of the Church 
consists of that best kind of instruction, — teach- 
ing by examples. 

This teaching is conveyed by means of the 
Collects and portions of Scripture appointed 
to be used upon her Holydays, on which she 
praises God for the graces bestowed by Him 
upon the Saints, Apostles, Evangelists, and 
Mart}Ts, — and through them upon the whole 
Church. 

Here, also, her wisdom is shown in endea- 
vouring to instruct her people by appropriate 
lessons of edification. Little spiritual good is 
gained from mere vague generalities ; and almost 
every character of every Saint who is presented 
to us in Scripture, and is commemorated by the 
Church, communicates some special warning, 
admonition, or encouragement. Every Saixts 
Day has its own peculiar moral. The Church 
has endeavoured to lay hold upon this, and to 
present it to her people. 

A Hymn-Book ought to conform itself to the 
mind of the Church, and to follow her example, 
in this respect. It ought not to be content with 
supplying general Hymns on Martyrs, '^Xid^ general 
Hymns on Apostles and Evangelists. But some- 
thing more is requisite. The peculiar teaching 



xxviii Preface. 

which each Festival supplies, and the special 
expression of thankfulness which each Festival 
prompts, ought to find an echo in the Hymn of 
each of the Festivals of the Christian Year. 

Here, also, another desideratum may be noted 
in our Hymnology. The attempts made to 
supply it in the present volume (pp. 209 — 269) 
may at least serve the purpose of pointing out to 
others what remains to be done in this respect. 

The remaining Hymns in the Volume (pp. 270 
— 328) are designed for use on other occasions 
hallowed by the Services of the Church. 

9. Something has been done in late years for 
the diffusion of a knowledge of early Christian 
Poetry ; but the critical study of ancient Hymno- 
logy has not yet attained its proper proportions 
among us. 

In support of this statement it may be men- 
tioned that many Hymns have been printed in 
England as " a?icie?it^'' and even as ''primitive,'' 
which are not two centuries old^ This has 
arisen, in part, from the following circumstances ; 

Some of our Hymn-writers have resorted to 
the Galilean Breviaries, and have translated into 
English the Hymns which they have found there ; 

8 Among a hundred Hymns, entitled "Hymns of the Primi- 
the C/iurcA,''' at least fifty are not older than our own " New 
Version of the Psalms." 



Preface. xxix 

and some Editors of Hymns have published 
those Hymns as " Hymns of the Primitive 
Church." But it does not seem to have occurred 
to them that many of those Galhcan Breviaries 
undenvent a complete revolution in the seven- 
teenth and eighteenth centuries, especially in 
their Hymns. 

The Archbishops and Bishops of France fol- 
lowed the example of Pope Urban VIII., who 
altered the Hymns of the Roman Breviar}^ in 
the middle of the seventeenth century ; and they 
went far beyond him, in deahng with the Bre- 
viaries of their Dioceses. 

The " Parisian Breviary " passed through more 
changes than any other, first under Archbishop 
Harlay, and, after him, under Cardinal de 
Noailles, at the end of the seventeenth century, 
and, lastly, under one of his successors in the see 
of Paris, Charles de Vintimille, who published 
his edition of the Breviary in four volumes, at 
Paris, " cum privilegio Regis," in 1736. 

This Bre\iar}^, which was adopted by t^vent}^- 
three French Dioceses, contains a large number 
of Latin Hymns, by modern French writers, 
such as J. B. de Santeul, and Charles Coffin, 
rector of the University of Paris, who died in 

1749- 

The Preface to this Breviar)^ states that mo- 



XXX Pi-eface. 

der7i Hymns ^ have occasionally been p^-eferred 
to a7icie7it ones, but it gives no clue to the author- 
ship of the Hymns contained in those four 
volumes ; and the old and new materials are so 
blended together, that it is not possible to discri- 
minate them, except by collation with more 
ancient Liturgies. 

Hence the mistake has arisen which has pro- 
pagated itself so widely in England ; and it is a 
singular fact, that we are now singing in our 
Churches not a few Hymns as ancient, which 
, were written in France under Louis XIV. and 
Louis XV. ; and which since that time have been 
discarded by the French Church, which has cast 
off her Diocesan Breviaries, and has adopted the 
Roman Breviary in their stead. 

The " Parisian Breviary " has supplied more 
materials than almost any other to many of our 
translators of Latin Hymns j and its eighteenth 
century Hymns have been published in this 
country as " Hymns of the Primitive Church." 

Some of those Hymns are good specimens of 
Christian Poetry : this is not denied j but the 
reception of them as a7icieitt seems to show that 

9 "Veteribus Hymnis locus datus est, nisi quibus, ob sen- 
tentiarum vim, elegantiam verborum, et teneriores pietatis sen- 
sus, recentes anteponi satius visum est.'* — Preface to Parisian 

Bre^viary^ p. 7, ed. 1778. 



Preface. xxxi 

more of research is needed, than we have yet 
made, in this department of Sacred Literature, 
before we can expect to see a suitable H}aTin- 
Book for the general use of the Anglican Church. 

10. The materials from which the present 
Volume has been composed, are the Holy Scrip- 
tures, and the wTitings of Christian Antiquity. 

The Author has not endeavoured to translate 
any Ancient Hymns, but he has attempted to 
infuse something of their spirit into those which 
are here submitted to the reader. 

The works of the early Christian Fathers have 
supplied many thoughts, images, and expres- 
sions ; and he has rarely ventured on an attempt 
to compose a Hymn, without first endeavouring 
to ascertain how the same subject had been 
treated in the Poetry of the Ancient Church ^ 

1 1. He w^ould now ask leave to say a few words 
to those who may regard the Hymns in this volume 
as of too doctidnal or of too historical a character. ■ 

1 Which may be seen in Clichtovei Elucidarium, Paris, 1556, 
and more fully in Daniel's Thesaurus Hymnologicus, five 
volumes, 8vo., Lipsiae, 1841 — 55. Some valuable information 
on ancient Hymnology may be found in Gavanti Thesaurus 
Rituum, Tom. ii. sect. v. cap. vi. pp. 11 1 — 1175 and in 
Pascal, J. B. E., Origine de la Liturgie Cathoiique, p. 658. 
Paris, 1844. 



xxxii Preface, 

Christian Poetry ought to be a medium for 
the conveyance of Christian Doctrine. A Hymn 
ought to edify the mind, as well as to gratify the 
ear. It ought to be profitable to be read, as 
well as agreeable to be sung. St. Paul ex- 
horts the Colossians ^ " to teach and admofiish 
one another in Psahns and Hyfnns and Spiritual 
SongsT Ancient Heathen Lawgivers provided 
that their Codes should be set to music, in order 
that they might sink more deeply into the 
memories of the people. The early Christians, 
says the younger Pliny ^, met together before 
daybreak, in order to sing Hymns to Christ as 
God. The Hymns of ancient Christendom are 
replete with sound doJrine. The Church has 
wisely ordered that her Creeds should be some- 
times sung. In fact, her Creeds are Hymns ; 
they are her songs of victory, after her triumphs 
over Heresy, — like the songs of Moses and Mi- 
riam after the passage of the Red Sea. False 
Teachers perverted this practice of the Church 
to their own use. Paul of Samosata, Arius, and 
Apollinarius attempted to propagate their here- 
sies by means of Hymns. In no respect have 
the sectaries of modern times exerted more 

2 Col. iii. 1 6. See also Eph. v. 19. 

3 Epist. X. 97 } and see S. Hippolytus in Euseb. v. 28, where 
Psalms and Hymns are mentioned as sung to Christ. 



Preface. xxxiii 

influence than by Hymnology. Ephraem Syrus 
wrote Hymns to counteract the bad effects of 
those of Bardesanes and Harmonius. S. Am- 
brose wrote his Hymns as a safeguard against 
Arianism ^ The great Father of the African 
Church, S. Augustine, endeavoured to guard his 
flock against Donatistic error by means of me- 
trical Psahnody ^ A Church, which foregoes 
the use of Hymns in her office of Teaching, 
neglects one of the most efficacious instruments 
for correcting error, and for disseminating truth, 
as well as for ministering comfort and edification, 
especially to the poor. 

The ascription of praise to God, which is the 
office of Hymnology, ought assuredly to flow 
from an intelligent belief in the doctrines of 
Christianity, and from a thankful recollection of 
the divine benefits. 

The contemplation of the divine nature and 
attributes in their relation to us, and of the great 
mysteries of the Gospel, — which are the subject- 
matter of doctrinal teaching, — is the mainspring 
of true devotion and fervent adoration ; and the 
rehearsal of God's acts, especially as seen in the 



^ S. Ambrose, Epist. xx. 

^ In his Psalmus Abecedarius contra partem Donati : Opera, 
vol. ix, D. 42. 

b 



xxxiv Preface, 

life of His Ever-Blessed Son, and of His Saints, 
who derived all their sufficiency from God's 
grace, supplies the strongest motives to love and 
thankfulness, and the best examples of Christian 
practice. And when H}annology is grounded 
on this foundation of doctrme a?id history, may it 
not hope to be more and more ministerial to the 
divine glory and worship, and to the growth of 
piety and virtue, by its salutary influence on 
Christian faith and duty ] 

It has been the Author's endeavour to do 
what he could for the exemplification of these 
principles, in the present Volume. If it should 
be objected by some, that this endeavour has 
necessarily led him into doctrinal or historical 
details which are more suitable to prose than to 
poetr}^, let it be remembered, that the noblest 
Hymn in Christendom, the Te Deum, is simply 
a profession of Christian faith, and an ascription 
of praise grounded upon it. And as to historical 
narratives in Christian Poetry, may we not ap- 
peal to the divine precedent in the Psalms, many 
of which — as for example the 78th, the 105th, 
and the io6th — consist of relations of a succes- 
sion oi facts, summed up in thanksgi\dng, and 
crowned by adoration as their natural consum- 
mation and overflow ? 

The corruptions of the Church in doctrine 



Preface. xxxv 

showed themselves m a degenerate Hymnolog}-. 
Some HA-mns of great beaut}- were still produced 
in the twelfth centur}', especially by S. Bernard, 
and by Adam of S. Victor ^ But on the whole, 
how great is the decline, both in style and 
matter ^, in the sacred poetr}- of the fourteenth 
and fifteenth centuries from that of the fourth 
and the fifth, — the poetr}' of S. Ambrose, S. 
Hilary, and Prudentius I 

12. One of the greatest losses sustained by 
modern Christendom, especially in England, has 
arisen from the fact, that Hymnolog}* has been 
detached and severed from the Ritual and 
Teaching of the Church. It has been not unfre- 
quently blemished by unsound doctrine, and even 
by familiar irreverence, and rhapsodical fanati- 

^ Which may be seen in the work of Clichtoveus already 
quoted, and in the Thesaurus Hymnologicus of Daniel. Some 
of the choicest specimens of them, illustrated by an excellent 
commentary, will be found in the Dean of Westminster's Sacred 
Latin Poetry, London, 1849. 

'^ This is illustrated by Mone's Collection of Mediaeval 
Hymns, Friburg, 1853, in three volumes, of which only a part 
of the first volume contains Hymns to God 5 and all the rest of 
the work consists of Hymns to Angels and Saints. The 
Hymns to the Blessed Virgin fill an entire volume j and even 
in the small portion which are entitled " ad Deum," many are 
invocations of the Cross, or of the crown of thorns, Face, and 
wounds of Christ. See vol. i. pp. 13^ — 181. 

b 2 



xxxvi Preface, 

cism ; or else it too often rambles on in desultory 
and unmeaning generalities, or sparkles with a 
glitter of tinsel imagery and verbal prettiness, or 
endeavours to charm the ear with a mere musical 
jingle of sweet sounds, not edifying the mind, 
nor warming the heart, nor ministering to the 
glory of Him, to whom all Christian worship 
ought to be paid. 

13. It was said by a gi'eat preacher, Dr. Isaac 
Barrow, that the personal and possessive pro- 
nouns / and mine ought never or very rarely to 
appear in a sermon. And this observ^ation seems 
to be still more applicable to such Hymiis as are 
designed for ///<^//^ worship. A Hymn, m public 
worship, is the collective voice of the Congrega- 
tion speaking to God, and singing His praise, 
or supplicating His grace. Every member of a 
Christian congregation is bound to profess his 
faith individually, and therefore eveiy one says 
in the Creeds, "I believe." But "when ye 
p7'ay " (is the precept of Christ) " say, Our Fa- 
ther ^ ;" and the primary object of prayer is God's 
glory, — not our own good. " Hallowed be Thy 
Name, Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done." 
The Lord's prayer may and ought to be a pat- 

^ Matt. vi. 9. 



Ff-eface. xxxvii 

tern also iox praise. The Hymns of Holy Scrip- 
ture are free from egotism. The Angels forget 
themselves in worshipping God. " Glory to God 
in the highest, and on earth Peace, goodwill 
towards mien." " Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord 
of Hosts, the whole Earth is full of His glory ^" 
The Church triumphant thanks God for His 
great glory ^ ; and while she duly remembers what 
the Lamb, who has been slain, has done for her, 
it is not by decomposing herself into individuals, 
and disintegrating herself into atoms, that she 
glorifies Him, but by an universal chorus of 
praise for the salvation He has wrought for the 
whole company of faithful people in ever}^ Nation 
under heaven. " Thou wast slain, and hast re- 
deem.ed tcs ^ to God by Thy blood out of every 
kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation, and 
hast made us ^ unto our God kings and priests." 

^ Isa. vi. 3. 

^ This characteristic of heavenly worship is appropriately 
adopted in the Eucharistic *' Gloria in excelsis," — " We give 
thanks to Thee for Thy great glor)\" S. Augustine's defi- 
nition of a Hymn is, — " Hymnus est cantus cum laude Dei ; 
si cantas, et non laudas Deum, non dicis Hymnum ; si laudas 
aliquid quod non pertinet ad laudem Dei, non dicis Hymnum } " 
in Ps. cxlviii. 

2 Rev. V. 9, 10. The pronoun "k^" is very doubtful, in 
both these verses, as may be seen by an examination of the 
manuscript authorities 5 in the former it ought probably to be 



xxxviii F?rface. 

One of the most striking differences between 
Ancient and Modern Hymns is this, — that the 
former are ahvays objective, the latter are very 
often subjective. The former are distinguished 
by self-forgetfulness, the latter by self-conscious- 
ness. In A7icie7it Hymns man is ahvays ele- 
vated to God ; in iiiodern, God is too often 
depressed to man. In the former, the soul of 
the worshipper blends itself with the souls of 
all other worshippers throughout the whole of 
Christendom in every age, and is absorbed in 
contemplation of God, and rises in an harmo- 
nious concert of praise to " the God of the Spirits 
of all flesh J' the Father of all^ the Redeemer of 
all, the Sanctifier of all. The pronouns / and 
my are rarely found in a7iy ancient Church-hynm. 
But in modern hymns, the individual often 
detaches and isolates himself from the body 
of the faithful ; and in a spirit of sentimental 
selfishness obtrudes his own feelings concerning 
himself; and claiming, as it were, a monopoly 
of spiritual privileges for himself, makes it 
to be the theme of praise to God the Father 
of all, that He has had mercy on hiiii, and 
to Christ the Saviour of the World, that He 



omitted, in the latter it ought to be " them.'''' This strengthens 
the above remarks on the self-forgetfulness of genuine worship. 



Preface, xxxix 

has died for him; and he comes fonvard to 
speak to God concerning his own spiritual state, 
contrasted with that of others, in a tone of self- 
congratulation, which sometimes seems to be 
not far removed from that of the Pharisee in 
the Gospel ^ j and he does this in public worship, 
in the house of God, and makes his own indi- 
viduality to be, as it were, the axis around which 
all the congregation, and even the heavenly- 
sphere itself, is caused to revolve ^ ! 

^ Luke xvili. ii. 

* Specimens of modern Hymns of this character, adopted in 
some Manuals for public worship, may be seen in the following : 

When / can read my title clear 

To mansions in the skies, 
/bid farewell to every fear, 

And ivipe my iveeplng eyes. 

# # ^ 

Then / can smile at Satan's rage, 
.And face a frowning world. 

# # * 

When /survey the wondrous cross 
On which the Prince of glory died, 

My richest gems / count but loss, 
And pour contempt on all my pride. 

# * * 

/ hold the sacred book of God, 

To hear, and keep, and use it, free. 
But holy Martyrs shed their blood 
To win this Word of life for me. 
In one modern Hymn, beginning " My God, the spring of 



xl Preface, 

14. Another objection that may be made to 
certain egotistical Hymns m public worship is this ; 
that they put into the mouth of ever>^ member of 
a congregation expressions of confident self- 
assurance, or of a famihar and even amatory 
character, in addresses to that awful Being, be- 
fore w^hose Divine IVIajesty the Angels veil their 
faces. Let the reader imagine, what the writer 
has heard, such a Hymn as the following, given 
out to be sung by ever}^ member of a large mixed 
congregation, in a dissolute part of a populous 
and irreligious cit}/^ : — 

Jesu, lox'tr of my soul, 
Let me to Thy bosom Jiy ; 

and let him be entreated to consider, whether 
such language as this is not inexpressibly shock- 
ing to the contrite and humble worshipper ; and 
whether it is not veiy hurtful to the presumptuous ; 
and whether it must not be xtry offensive to 
Almighty God, who is to be " sanctified in them 
who come nigh Him," and to be approached 
with " reverence and godly fear ^" 

The above remarks are ?wt designed to apply 
to Hymns employed in private devotion^ but to 



all my joys," and consisting only of twelve lines, the pronouns 
/ and my occur no less than eleven times. 
^ Lev. X. 3. Heb. xii. 28, 



Preface. xli 

such as are used mptiblic worship ; and they are 
directed against assertions of self-confidence, and 
self-glorification, but not against individual self- 
reproach and self-abascDmit^ such as those, for 
example, in the fifty-first Psalm, " Have mercy 
upon 77ie^ O God, according to Thy loving-kind- 
ness, according unto the multitude of Thy tender 
mercies blot out my transgressions." '^Wash 
77ie throughly from 7iiy wickedness, and cleanse 
77ie from 77iy sin. For / acknowledge 77iy trans- 
gressions, and 77iy sin is ever before ;;/^." 

If it should be objected in reply to these 
observations, that the personal and possessive 
pronouns / and 77iy are often found in other 
Psalms, of an eucharistic character, it ought to 
be borne in mind, that the Psahns are words of 
the Holy Spirit Himself, speaking by a Pro- 
phet and a King, the Royal Ancestor of Christ, 
and 'not unfrequently speaking in the name of 
Christ ^ and of the Church, and collecting the 
w^hole body of the faithful in himself. Those 
pronouns, as used by David, ser\^e for the most 
part to declare the imity of the Church U7ii- 
versal ^. 

^ See Bp. Home's Preface to his Commentar)' on the Psalms, 
pp. xli — xliv, ed. London, 1844. 

^ This is well expressed by Hengstenberg, who says on Psalm 
iii., " David coined for the Church the gold bestowed on him- 



xlii Preface. 

In mediaeval times the sacred Poetry of the 
Church declined in Catholicity, and tended more 
and more towards individualism. Some traces 
of this tendency may be seen in certain Hymns 
of S. Bernard ^, and in one or two stanzas of the 
celebrated Christian poem " Dies irae, Dies ilia V' 
which is probably not more ancient than the 
fifteenth century. And it is interesting and in- 
self.'* And, again, In his Essay on the Designations, Contents, 
&c., of the Psalms at the end of his third volume, he observes 
that " David vi^as the organ of the Church, the man raised on 
high, the anointed of the God of Jacob 5 David, in w^hom the 
community is represented as its head . . . David describes him- 
self in 2 Sam. xxiii. i, 2, as speaking by the Spirit of God ; 
and this vi^as the principle declared by our Lord (Matt. xxii. 41 
— 46), and our Lord's reference to the Psalms (Luke xx. 44) 
rests on the supposition that they w^ere composed by Divine 
Inspiration, and had reference to Himself, and were therefore 
received into the Canon of the Church." 

^ For example, that ascribed to him beginning, 
** Salve, mundi salutare, 
Salve, salve, Jesu care, 
Cruel tuae me aptare," &c. 

Daniel, Thes. Hymnol. ii. 359, Iv. 224; Mone, I. p. 162. 
9 Daniel ii. 103, v. p. no. See especially the stanzas, 

** Recordare, Jesu pie^ 
Quod sum causa tuas viae, 
Ne me perdas ilia die. 
Quaerens me venisti lassus, 
Redemisti crucem passus, 
Tantus labor ne sit cassus." 



Freface, xliii 

structive to observe, how the idiosyncrasies of 
Mediaevahsm, as distinguished from Cathohcism, 
in this and in many other respects, anticipated 
the pecuhar characteristics of Methodism. 

Such Hymns, however beautiful they may be, 
and however suitable for the religious exercises 
of the individual soul, in its private contimmhigs 
with God, ought, it would seem, to be rarely, if 
ever, brought forth in the public nwrship of the 
Sanctuary. 

15, A few words may be now said upon the 
Metres of sacred Hymnology. 

Here also it may be submitted for considera- 
tion, whether we may not have something to 
learn, and something to lay aside. 

For example, it was an ancient rhythmical 
principle, that the Tetrameter Trochaic of fif- 
teen syllables should be specially employed on 
occasions where there is a sudden burst of feeling, 
after a patient waiting, or a continuous struggle. 
This Metre never finds its place at the beginning, 
but is reserved for a later period in the Drama, 
both Tragic and Comic, of the ancient Stage ^ 
The long rapid sweep of this noble Metre, and 
the jubilant movement of the verse, render it 

1 See Bentley's Preface to his edition of Terence, p. v, 
*<illud admonendum, ut a Trimetris (iambis) suas fabulas 
nostrum inchoasse, ita semper Tetrametris (trochaicis) finiisse." 



xliv Preface. 

very suitable for use on the great Festivals of the 
Christian Year, such as Easter and Ascension ^, 
when, after severe trial, or quiet endurance, the 
Church is suddenly cheered by a glorious vision 
which gladdens her heart, and evokes a song of 
rapture from her lips. 

But it may well admit of a doubt, whether this 
trochaic measure is appropriate at such solemn 
seasons as that in which the Christian Church is 
meditating on the awful transactions of the Day 
of Judgment. And yet the Hymn on the Second 
Advent, which is most familiar to English ears, 
is composed in a tetrameter trochaic broken into 
two parts, and rendered more joyful by double 
rhymes, — 

*' Lo ! He comes with clouds descending, 
Once for favour'd sinners slain 2." 

The mention of this Hymn may introduce the 
remark that the magnificent ancient tetrameter 
trochaic of fifteen syllables, to which reference 

2 It is therefore employed on those Festivals in the present 
Volume 5 see below, p. 103, and p. 129,* and p. 268, the Fes- 
tival of " All Saints," which is the last Saint's-day in the year, 
and reveals the Church in glory. 

3 How much grander is " Luther's Hymn," with its spondaic 
movement, — " Great God, what do I see and hear !" and how 
much more appropriate ! The Author has attempted to apply 
this principle in Hymn 3, p. 5, below, "for the Second Ad- 
vent;" in lines often syllables, of iambics and spondees. 



Preface. xlv 

has just been made, has now unfortunately, but 
ahiiost universally, been broken into t^vo parts, 
the former consisting of eight, the latter of seven 
syllables. This bi-section of the verse, — which 
seems to have been occasioned by the exigencies 
of Printing, not being able to include the fifteen 
syllables in narrow double columns, — has been 
a serious evil to Hymnolog}*. Let any one read 
a tetrameter trochaic of ^Eschylus, or of the 
Christian Poet Piiidentius ^, or of the glorious 
ancient H}Tnn " Pange, lingua V" first as the 
Authors wrote them, in lines of fifteen syllables, 
and then let him break up each hne into t^vo 
parts, and he ^"ill immediately perceive how^ 
much he has lost both in sound and sense by 
this process of disruption. The majestic flow of 

* e. g. his beautifal Cathemerinon ix., — 
'' Da puer plectrum, choreis ut canam fidelibus 
Duke carmen et melodum, gesta Chrisd insignia : 
Hunc camena nostra solum pangat, hunc laudet lyra." 

Thus the H\Tnn is very properly printed by Dressel in his 
recent edition of Prudentius, p. 53, ed. Lips. i860. In some 
former editions of Prudentius each line is dismembered, for the 
convenience of printing. 

^ *' Pange, lingua, gloriosi prcslium certaminis, 

Et super crucis trophseo die triumphum nobilem." 
See Clichtoveus. p. 30, where it is printed in double columns, 
and consequently broken up j but Daniel (Thes. Hymnol. i. p. 
163) has judiciously restored it to its ancient tetrameter form. 



xlvi Preface, 

the line which bore the reader onward, as on a 
smooth and rapid current, is suddenly checked, 
as by a reef or bar thrown across it. 

It is remarkable that this ancient tetrameter 
trochaic, consecrated by the use of the early 
Christian Church, does not find a place in its 
genuine form, as far as the writer is aware, in 
any of the modern manuals of popular English 
Hymnology. 

1 6. With regard to the Tunes, to which the 
Hymns in the present Volume may be sung, 
it is obvious that if Hymns are to be used in 
Public or domestic worship, they must for the 
most part accommodate themselves to Tunes 
already known. 

The Church of England possesses an ample 
store of Hymn-Tunes made or harmonized by 
eminent Composers. Almost all of the Hymns 
in the present publication may be sung to some 
Tune which may be found in those collections ^ ; 
as will be seen in the notes subjoined to each 
Hymn. For those Hymns which cannot be 

6 Particularly in the valuable collections published by the 
Rev. W. Mercer, and in the Volume entitled " Hymns Ancient 
and Modern," edited by the Rev. Sir Henry W. Baker, Bart., 
and compiled and arranged under the musical editorship of 
Mr. W. H. Monk. Other Tune Books are mentioned below, 
p. Ixiv, 



Preface. xlvii 

so matched, proper Tunes have been provided, 
which will be found in the Appendix (p. 337) ; 
for which, and for other help, the Author is 
indebted to some dear friends. 

[7. If a proper use has been made by him of 
the materials supplied by Holy Scripture, and by 
the writings of Christian Antiquity, the present 
Volume may not perhaps be unprofitable in 
private religious exercises, and in household 
worship, and in schools. 

18. If some of the Hymns in this Volume 
should be thought too long for use in public 
Worship, the Author would observ^e, that even if 
a portio7i only of a Hymn can be sii7ig^ yet a 
congregation may derive benefit from having 
presented to the eye, and to the mind as food 
for meditation, more than is uttered by the lips. 

He would also venture to put in a plea for 
the emancipation of Hymnology from its pre- 
sent straitened limits of four or five verses and a 
doxology. The office of Public Worship is not 
only to promote God's glory by prayer and praise, 
but to act upon the mind, heart, and life of the 
worshipper. 

To give greater freedom, expansion, and elas- 
ticity to Hymnology would be a happy return to 
primitive usage ; and it would minister fresh life 
to Christian faith and practice. 



xlviii P^^eface. 

The use of Hymns referring to the Collect, 
Epistle, or Gospel of the Week, or to the Les- 
sons of the Day, would give a quickening impulse 
to devotion, and a practical direction to it. A 
Hymn sung by the people sinks more deeply into 
their memory than what they hear from the pulpit. 
And Christian faith is strengthened, and love is 
cherished, and hope is enlivened by a Hymn, 
which carries the mind on with a flow of thought, 
and by a suggestion of holy recollections of the 
past, and of joyful aspirations for the future, and 
nourishes the soul with solid and substantial food 
of sound doctrine conveyed in simple language. 

J 9. The Author is well aware that the foregoing 
observations may excite prejudice in some quar- 
ters, and may expose the Hymns in this Volume 
to the ordeal of a less indulgent criticism on that 
account. But he will not regret this result, if the 
thoughtful and impartial reader should honour 
with his approval those sentiments which, after 
patient reflection, have been adopted, and are 
expressed in this Preface ] and if the above re- 
marks should be of any use in elevating the 
popular mind to a clearer knowledge and juster 
estimate of the structure of the English Liturg}^, 
and to sounder notions on the subject of 
Hymnolog}^, as connected with it. 



Fj'tface. xlix 

This Volume is published with the approval 
of the Bishop of the Diocese — the Diocese of 
Oxford — in which almost all the Hymns were 
composed. It is dedicated to the service of the 
Author and Giver of all good, Whose Xame be 
ever blessed in the Church throughout the 
world, with a humble and earnest prayer that it 
may be made ministerial to His glor}', and to 
the good of His Church, especially in this land ; 
and it is put forth in the two hundredth Anni- 
versary of the last revision of her Liturgy, in 
the hope that it may ser\'e in some degree to 
place in a clearer light the blessings which this 
countr}^ has received from the goodness of God, 
in her Book of Common Prayer. 

Lent, 1862. 



The foregoing Preface, first printed in 1862, 
has been enlarged in this new Edition. — -/a?L 7, 

1863. 



PREFACE 

TO THE 

THIRD EDITION. 



Some Hymns have been added to this edition, 
in order to make it harmonize more fully with the 
Book of Common Prayer. They are as follows ; 
Hymn 69, p. 166; Hymn for the Sunday before 
Advent, Part II., p. 207 ; for the Visitation of 
the Sick, p. 287 ; for the Communion of the 
Sick, p. 291 ; for the Churching of Women, p. 
297 ; for Commination, p. 300; for Schools, p. 
325 ; and for Charitable Collections, p. 326. 

These additions have produced some slight 
discrepancies in the numbering of the Hymns 
in this edition, as compared with former ones. 
But the '' Index of first lines " will obviate any 
inconvenience that might other^vise have arisen 
from this difference. 

The present edition contains original Hymns 
only. In consequence of the additions to their 
number, and of the adoption of a larger type in 
the present impression, the Author has dispensed 
with the Supplement of Hymns from other collec- 
tions, which may be found in the other editions 
of this work, printed in a smaller size. 

EpipJia7iy^ 1863. 



CALENDAR OF HYMNS 

FOR 

SUNDAYS, HOLYDAYS, AND OTHER 

OCCASIONS. 



The numerals in the following Calendar refer to pages. 

PAGE 

Sunday ......... i 

The first Advent 4 

The second Advent ....... 5 

First and second Advent compared .... 7 

Second Sunday in Advent ...... 9 

Third Sunday in Advent . . . . . .11 

Fourth Sunday in Advent ...... 12 

Christmas Day . . . . . . . .15 

St. Stephen's Day . . . . . . .18 

St. John the Evangelist's Day ..... 20 

The Innocents' Day ....... 22 

Sunday after Christmas ...... 24 

The Circumcision of Christ . . . . . 26 

New Year's Day ....... 28 

The Epiphany ........ 30 

The Baptism of Christ ...... 32 

First Sunday after the Epiphany . . . . • 35 

Second Sunday after the Epiphany . . . • 37 

Third Sunday after the Epiphany . . . -39 

C 2 



lii 



Calejidar of Hymns for 



Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany 

The same subject continued 

Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany 

Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany 

The Transfiguration of Christ 

Septuagesima . • 

Sexagesima 

Sexagesima and Quinquagesima 

Qu^inquagesima . 

Ash-Wednesday 

First Sunday in Lent . 

Another for the same Sunday 

Second Sunday in Lent 

Third Sunday in Lent 

Fourth Sunday in Lent. Part L 

Part II 

Part III 



Fifth Sunday in Lent 
Sunday next before Easter 
Another for the same 
Another . , 

Monday before Easter 
Tuesday before Easter 
Wednesday before Easter 
Thursday before Easter 
Good Friday 
Easter Even 
Easter Day 
Easter 

Monday in Easter Week 
Tuesday in Easter Week 
First Sunday after Easter 
Second Sunday after Easter 
Third Sunday after Easter 



50 
53 
56 
5^ 
59 
I. 300 

64 

65 
68 

70 

72 

74 
76 

77 
79 
81 



Sundays^ Holydays, a?id other Occasions, liii 

■ 


PAGE 


Fourth Sunday after Easter 119 


Fifth Sunday after Easter . 








122 


Rogation Days ..... 








125 


Ascension Day ..... 








129 


Sunday after Ascension Day 








133 


Whitsunday .... 








136 


Monday in Whitsun Week 








140 


Tuesday in Whitsun Week 








144 


Trinity Sunday .... 








145 


First Sunday after Trinity . 








147 


Second Sunday after Trinity 








150 


Third Sunday after Trinit}^ 








. 152 


Fourth Sunday after Trinity 








• 154 


Fifth Sunday after Trinity . 








. 156 


Sixth Sunday after Trinity . 








. 158 


Seventh Sunday after Trinity 








160 


Eighth Sunday after Trinity 








. 163 


Another ft)r the same Sunday (Elijah) 








. 166 


Ninth Sunday after Trinity 








169 


Tenth Sunday after Trinity 








• 171 


Eleventh Sunday after Trinity 








. 174 


. Twelfth Sunday after Trinity 








175 


Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity . 








• 179 


Another ft>r the same Sunday 








. 181 


Fourteenth Sunday aft^r Trinity . 








. 183 


Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 








185 


Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 








187 


Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 








190 


Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity . 








191 


Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity . 








193 


Twentieth Sunday after Trinity . 








196 i 


Twent)^-first Sunday after Trinity 








19S ' 


Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity . 








199 


Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity 








2CI 



liv 



Calendar of Hymiis for 



Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity 
Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity 
Another for the Sunday before Advent 



St. Andrew's Day 

St. Thomas the Apostle 

The Conversion of St. Paul 

The Presentation of Christ in the Temple 

St. Matthias' Day 

The Annunciation 

St. Mark's Day 

St. Philip and St. James' Day 

St. Barnabas the Apostle . 

St. John Baptist's Day 

St. Peter's Day 

Another for the same Festival 

St. James the Apostle 

St. Bartholomew the Apostle 

St. Matthew the Apostle and Evangelii 

St. Michael and all Angels 

St. Luke the Evangelist 

Another for the same Festival. On 

Apostles .... 
St. Simon and St. Jude, Apostles 
All Saints' Day 
Holy Communion 
Holy Baptism .... 
Confirmation .... 
Holy Matrimony . , 
Visitation of the Sick 
Communion of the Sick . 
Burial of the Dead ... 
Churching of Women after Childbirth 
Commination .... 



the 



Acts 



of the 



Sundays^ Holy day s^ and other Occasions. Iv 

PAGE 

Prayers at Sea 303 

For Ember Weeks and Ordinations of Bishops, Priests, 

and Deacons ....... 308 

The Queen's Accession . . . . . .311 

Consecration of Churches, or Laying the First Stone of a 

Church 313 

Consecration of Churchyards . . . . 'Si? 

Missions to the Heathen . . . . . .321 

Schools ......... 325 

Charitable Collections . . . . . .326 

Thanksgiving for Harvest . . • . .328 



1 

CALENDAR OF HYMNS 


FOR 


WEEK-DAYS. 


The folloiv'ing Calendar Is designed to show which of the 


Hymns in this Volume may be used on Week-days respectively 


throughout the year 5 as having some reference to the Proper 


Lessons, Collect, Epistle, or Gospel, appointed for those days. 


N.B. — The numerals in this Calendar refer to Hymns, not 


pages. 


JANUARY. 


10. Morn. 13. 19, 20, 21. 


I. (Circumcision.) Morn. 13, 


E'L'fW 64. 


14. E^en. 13, 14. 


II. Morn. 86. 


2. Morn. 109. E'uen. 26. 


12. £w«. 32. 


3. Morn. II. 15. 44. 64. 


13. Morn. 97. 121. 


E^ven. 44. 


14. Enjen. 28. 


4. Morn. 6. 16. 22. 38. 97. 


15. M;r;z. 22. E'ven. II 9. 


E'ven. 27. 


16. M/r«. 34. 


5. Morn. 30, 31. 108. E'uen. 


17. Morn. 32. 


13.27. 


18. Morn. 79. 98. 


6. (Epiphany.) Morn. 15, 16. 


19. Morn. 24. 


E^en. 18. 


20. E'z/^w. 33. 


7. Morn. 27. 


21. M?r;z. III. E'ven. 33. i 


8. Morn. 77. E-ven. 37. 


118. 


66. 


22. E'ven. 6. 


9- 


23. M?r;7. 4. 36. 40. 



Calendar of Hymns for Week-days. Ivii 


24. Morn. 80. 85. Enjen. 


20. 


Morn. 6. 16. 97. 


25. (Conversion of St. Paul.) 


21. 


Morn. 31. 


Morn. 90. Zi^'f«. 90. 


22. 


M/r«. 7. 


26. 


23. 


Morn. 79. 


27. M?r;z. 41. 


24. 


(St. Matthias.) Mor;;. 92. 


28. Morn. 




19. 78. Enjm. 92. 


29. £«z;f«. 70. 


25. 


Morn. II. 21. 86. £i;^«. 


30. Mor«. 39. 43, 44. 




52. 


31. Morn. 45. £w«. 59. 


26. 


Morw. 24. £^1;^^. 53. 




27. 


Morn. 74. Ei/^w. 79, 


FEBRUARY. 




80. 




28. 


E^en. 33. 82. 


I. Morn. 6. 16. 19. 97. 


29. 


^'t/fw. 28. 


Zt;^«. 28. 






2. (Presentation of Christ in 




MARCH. 


the Temple.) Morn. 






91. ^'i/fw. 91. 


I. 


E'ven. 82. 


3. Enjen. 44. 61. 114. 121. 


2. 


E'ven. 90. 


4. Morn. 20. 51. 70. 


3. 




5. M?r«. 21. 70. 86. 


4- 


M?r;z. 63. 


6. Morn. 34. 


5- 


M/r;;. 61. 


7. ikfo;-;?. 32. 52. E't.'f;?, 73. 


6. 


M/r;z. 76. 


8. Morn. 34. 


7- 




9. Morn, 24. 


8. 


Morn. 4. 36, 71. Enjen. 


10. E't;f«. 73. 




80. 


II. Morn. 4. 36. 40. 


9- 


ikft^rw. 85. 


12. Morn. 85. 


10. 


M/r«. 41. . 


13. M?r«. 41. 59. 


II. 




14. 


12. 


Morn. 39.- 43, 44. 


15. Mnrn. 39. 43> 44- S^- 


13- 


M/r;2. 46, 47. 


16. Morn. 46, 47. 70. £-t;^;z. 


14. 


Morn. 95. 97. 


82. 


15. 


Morn. 18. .34. 62. E'ven, 


17. Morn. 59. £'t;^«. 51. 




27. 


18. Morn. 51. 


16. 


Tkforw. 109. Enjen. 


19. Mjr«. 8. 12, 13. 17. 91. 


17. 


Morn. 82. 



Iviii Calendar of Hymns for Week-days, 


1 8. Morn, 62. E'ven. 62. 


13. Morn, 98. 


19. Morn, 7. 34. E'ven, 118. 


14. 


20. 


15. Morn, 99. 


21. Morn, 32. 


16. £i;^«. 69.* 


22. E-t/^w. 67. 


17. Morn, 96. 


23. M?r«. 118. 


18. E-ven, 51. 


24. Morn, 121. 


19. £1;^;;. 27. 


25. (Annunciation of the 


20. 


Blessed Virgin Mary.) 


21. £'t;e«. 71. 


Morn, 93. 4. 36. 67. 


22. Enjen, 24. 


£t/^«. 93. 


23. £i/^«. 51. 


26. 


24. E'ven, 27. 


27. Morn, 53. £i;^n. 


25. (St. Mark.) Morn, 94. 


28. Mor«. 25. 77.109. £i/^«. 


90. £i/f;?. 94. 


29. M>r«. 53. 


26. Et/fw, 79. 


30. £i;f«. 65. 


27. Morn, 67. 


31. Morn, 65. 


28. E-r/^w. 28. 59. 




29, Morn. 90. 


APRIL. 


30. Morn, 67. £t/^«. 67. 


I. Morn. 39. 43, 44. 


MAY. 


2. Morn, 46, 47, 48, 49. 




Enjcn, 


I. (St. Philip and St. James.) 


3. M?r«. 37. 98. 107. 


Morn, 95. £i/f«. 95. 


Even, 37. 


2. Morn, 90. 


4. AforK. 55. 92. 105. 


3. M?r«. 8. 


Enjen, 56. 


4. M?r«. II. 15, 16. 


5. Morn, 57. jEi;f«. 37. 


E'ven, 68. 


6. M?r«. 105. 


5. Morn, 6. 97. 


7. Mor«. 31. Enjen. 35. 


6. M?r;z. 30, 31. E'ven, 68. 


8. M?r«. 59. Ewn, 35. 43. 


7. M?r«. 69. £w;7. 66. 69. 


9. Enien, 107. 


8. Morn, 77. 


10. 


9, Z'z;^«. 64. 


II. ^-z/^w. 107. 


10. Morn, 19, 20, 21. 


12. Morn, 52. 90. 

i 


II. Morn. 50. 86. £i/f«. 59. 



Caleitdar of Hymns for Week-days, lix 


12. 


12. Morn. 85. 


13. IVkrn, 97. 


13. Morff. 41, 


14. Morn. 4.6, E'uen. 119. 


14. 


15. Morn. 22. 


15. Morn. 39. 43, 44. Even, 


I 16. Morn. 24. 


82. 


17. M)r;7. 32. 


16. Morn, 46, 47. 


1 18. M>r«. 75. 79. Even. 75. 


17. M?r.»;. 93. 


19. M?r;7. 24. 


18. Morn. 8. 12, 13. 17. 91. 


20. Ei/^w. 118. 


19. Morn. 6. 16. 97. 


21. E'uen, 118. 


20. M^rw. 30, 31. 119. 


22. M/r;;. 25. 


21. Mor;?. 7. 


1 23. Morn, 4. 36. 40. 


22. £'z/f». 67. 78. 


24. Morn. 80. 85. 


23. Af«)r». 19. 78. 


25. 


24. (St. John the Baptist.) 


26. Mor«. 41. 


Morn. 97. Even, 97. 


27. Morn, 3. £t/f«, 70. 


25. Morw. 20, 21. 86. 


28. Morn, 42. 


26. Afcrw. 24. 84. 


29. Mor;7. 39. 43, 44. 59. 


27. Morn. 74. Even. 79, 


30. Morn, 46. Even. 28. 


80. 


31. M?r;7. 6. 16. 19. 97. 


28. £t/f«. 33. 82. 


1 


29. (St. Peter.) Morn. 98, 99. 


JUNE. 


Even. 98, 99. 




30 Even. 82. 


I. Even, 45. 121. 




2. 

3. Morn, 20. 26. 


JULY. 


4. M?r«. 21. 86. 


I. Even. 90. 


5. Morn, 34. £t/f«. 73, 


2. £t/f«. 39. 50. 


6. Morn. 32. 


3. Morn. 63. 


7. Morw. 34. 


4. -M)r«. 61. 


8. Morn, 29. 


5. M?rw. 76. 


9- 


6. E-z/^^. 66. 


10. Morn. 4. 36. 40. 


7. Morn. 4. 36. 71. E^fw. 


II. (St. Barnabas.) Morn, 96. 


80. ; 


Zi;^«. 96. 


8. Morn, 85. 



I 

Ix Calendar of Hy77ins for Week-days, 


9. Morn. 41. 


5. M/z-w. 105. 


10. 


6. E'z/^w. 35. 


1 II. Morn. 39. 43, 44. 


7. Enjen. 35.43. 


1 1 2. Morn. 46, 47. Enjen. 


8. E'z/fw. 107. 


\ 13. Mjrw. 95. 97. 


9. Morn. 7. 


i 14. 7kfor«. 18. E'ven. 27. 


10. 


1 15. M>r«. 97. 109. 


II. Mjr«. 52. 90. 


1 16. Morn. 83. 


12. M?r«. 98. 


17. Morn, 3. 


13. ikforw. 96. 


18. Morn. 7. 34. £t;^«. 


14. Morn. 99. 


119. 


15. Mor«. 90. E'ven. 69. 


19. 


16. AforK. 96. 


20. M/r«. 32. 


17. Enjen. 51. 


21. 


18. -E'r/^/z. 27. 


22. Morn. 63. 108. 


19. 


23. Morn. 121. 


20. En; en, 81. 


24. Morn. 4. 36. 


21. E'ven. 24. 


25. (St. James the Apostle.) 


2 2. Morn, 81. 


Morn. 10 1. jEt;^/z. 


23. E'l/^w. 27. 


lOI. 


24. (St. Bartholomew.) Morn. 


26. 


loi. 90. Enjen, loi. 


27. M5r«. 77. £'i/^«. 109. 


25. 


28. Morn. 53. 


26. E^ven, 28. 


29. Morn. 87. 


27. -Mcrw. 59. 


30. 


28. Morn. 90. 


31. M^r«. 39. 43, 44. 


29. 




30. M/r«. 90. Enjen. 51. 




31. ikfo;'«. 8. 


AUGUST. 






SEPTEMBER. 


I. Morn. 46, 47, 48, 49. 




2. Morn. 98. £i/^«. 37. 


I. Morn. II. i^, 16. 


3. Morn. 7. 55. 92. 105. 


2. M?r«. 6. 97. 


E'ven. 56. 


3. 7kZbr«. 30, 31. 


4. M?rK. 57. £i;^«. 37. 


4. E-ven. 43. 



Calendar of Hynms for Week-days. Ixi 


5. Morn. 77. 




6. Morn, 79. 


OCTOBER. 


7. Morn, 19, 20, 21. -Ew/z. 


I. Morn, 20. 


64. 


2. Mcr«. 21. 86. 


8. M/r/z. 86. 


3. Mor«. 34. 


9- 


4. ilfcr«. 32. ^'i;^;?. 73. 


10. Morn, 97. 


5. Morn. 34. 


II. £"1;^^. 28. 


6. Aforw. 24. 


12. Morn. 22. E'Z/fW. 1 1 9. 


7. 


(3. Mpr«. 34. 


8. M^r;?. 4. o^(^, 40. 


i 14. Morn. 32. 


9. 7kfi;r«. 85. 


15. Aforw. 79. 


10. Morn. 41. 


16. Mjrw. 24. 


II. 


' 17. Morn. 118. 


12. Morn. 39.43,44. 


18. £i-v«. 118. 


13. Morw. 46, 47. E'ven. 


19. Morn, 25. 


72.82. 


20. Morn. 4. 36. 40. 


14. M)r«. 93. 103. 106. 


21. (St. Matthew the Apos- 


15. Morn. 97. 


tle.) Morn. 102. 80. 


16. Morn. 8. 12, 13. 17. 91. 


84. Enjen. I02. 


E-vm. 83. 


22. E'ven. 4. 


17. Morn. 6. 16. 97. E'ven. 


23. Morn. 41. 


79. 


24. 


18. (St. Luke the Evangelist.) 


25. E'ven, 70. 


Morn. 104. 31. Enjcn, 


26. Mcrw. 39. 43, 44. ^'z/^w. 


T04. 


91. 


19. Mi>r«. 7. 


27. Mor«. 46. 59. 


20. Morn. 79. £i;f;7. 74. 


28. Morn. 6. 16. 19. 97. 


21. Morn, 19. 78. 


Enjen. 28. 


22. Morn. 20, 21. 86. 


29. (St. Michael and all 


23. Morn. 24. 


Angels.) Morn. 103. 


24. M/r«. 74. E'uen, 79, 


99. E'uen. 103. 


80. 


30. Enjen, 44. 61. 114. 


25. Morn. E'ven. 2,^- 8l. 




26. Afor«. 77. E'ven. 82. 




27. 



Ixii Cale?idar of Hynuu for Week-days, 



28. (St. Simon and St. Jude.) 

Morn, 106. E'ven, 
106. 

29. Morn. 63. 

30. Morn. 61. 

31. Morn. 76. 

NOVEMBER. 

1. (All Saints.) Morn. 107. 

E'ven. 107. 

2. E'ven. 66. 

3. ikf(?r«. 4. 36. 71. E'ven, 

80. 

4. Morrz. 85. 

5. Morn. 41. 

6. 

7. Morn. 39. 43, 44. 

8. Morn. 46, 47. 

9. M)r«. 95. 97. 

10. Morn, i8» E-ven. 27. 

11. Morn, 97. 109. 

12. M?r«. 7. 82. 

13. Morn. 97. 

14. Mjr«. 34. 

15- 

16. Morn, 32. 

17. 

18. ikfor/z. 62. 108. 

19. Morn. 121. 125. 

20. Morn, 4. 36. 

21. Morn. 28. jEi/^«. 90. 
22. 

23. Morn, 77. 109. 

24. Mor«. 53. 



25. Msrw. 79. 
26. 

27. Mjr«. 39. 43, 44. 

28. Morn, 46, 47, 48, 49. 

29. Morn. 97. 108. 

30. (St. Andrew.) Morn. 88. 

55. 92. 105. E-ven, 
88. 56. 

DECEMBER. 

I. Morn. i,'J, E'ven, 37. 
2. 

3. £i;f«. 35. 

4. £i/^«. 43. 

5. E'ven, 107. 
6. 

7. Morn. 9. 

8. M?/-«. 52. 

9. Morn. 90. 

10. M/r«. 98. 

11. Morn. 96. 

12. Morn. 99. -E'i;/£'«. 69. 

13. £i;f«. 97. 

14. Morn. 96. -E-z/fw. 51. 

15. E'ven. 28. 
16. 

17. E'ven, 98. 108. 

18. E'ven. 24. 98. 

19. £t;f«. 51. 

20. E'ven. 27* 

21. (St. Thomas.) Morn. 89. 

^-t/f;?. 89. 

22. Morn, 90. 

23. E'ven. 28. 66. 



Calendar of Hymns for Week-days. Ixiii 



24. Enjen. 59. 

25. (Christmas Day.) Morn. 

8 E-ven. 8. 

26. (St. Stephen.) Morn, 9. 

Enjen. 9. 

27. (St. John the Evangelist.) 

Morn, 10. £i/en. 10. 



28. (Innocents' Day.) Morn, 

II. Eijen. II, 

29. Morn. 90. 

30. Af5r«. 39. 

31. M/r«. 89, 90. ^-r/e^. 

51- 



INDEX OF TUNE-BOOKS. 



The Tunes, to which each Hymn in this Volume may be sung, 

are specified in the notes subjoined to each Hymn. 

The TuNE-BooKS, in which those Tunes may be found, are 

as follows : 

Chofe, Rev. R. R. j Congregational Hymn and Tune Book. 

Crotch, Dr. W. j Psalm Tunes selected for the use of Cathe- 
drals and Parish Churches. London : Mills. 

Manual of Psalmody for the Sunday and other Services of the 
Church of England. Landon : J. Haddon. 

Mercer, Rev. W. j Church Psalter and|Hymn-Book j the 
Harmonies revised by John Goss, Esq. London : Nisbet. 

Metrical Tunes for Congregational use, published by the 
Society for Promoting Church Music. London : Har- 
rison. 

MoNKj "Hymns Ancient and Modern,*' compiled and ar- 
ranged under the musical editorship of W. H. Monk. 
London : Novello. 

Redhead, R. j Church Hymn Tunes. London : Masters. 

S. P. C. K. Tune Book 3 published under the direction of the 
Committee of General Literature of the Society for Pro- 
moting Christian Knowledge. 
A few of the Hymns in this volume are not adapted to Tunes 

in any of the above collections j but Tunes to which they 

may be sung, may be found in the Appendix at the end of this 

Volume, p. 337. 



HYMNS. 



MORNING 1 



SON of God, Eternal Word, 
Glorious Dayspring, Christ the Lord, 
Shine upon us with Thy rays, 
AVhile we celebrate Thy praise. 



When Thou madest heaven and earth. 
Angels shouted at their birth ; 
Morning stars in chorus sang, 
A\Tien the world from Darkness sprang. 

3- 

When in sin and death we lay, 
Thou didst wake us into Day ; 
Thou in human nature born 
Wert to us a glorious Mom. 

^ Tune : Innocents, Monk 20 5 Lubeck, Monk 21, Mercer 
100 i Gibbons, S. P. C. K. 83 j or Herts, Chope 40. 

This and the next Hymn were added to this Volume in 
1864. 

d 



Ixvi Mornmg. 

4' 

When Thou didst arise from Death, 
We were quicken'd by Thy breath ; 
We arose with Thee our Head 
First-begotten from the dead. 

5- 
Look on all with pitying eye 

Who in heathen Darkness lie, 
Scatter, Lord, their shades of Night, 
Dawn upon them with Thy Light. 

6. 

Send to us the Holy Ghost, 
Give the Light of Pentecost j 
That we may for ever bless 
Christ the Sun of Righteousness. 

7- 
Keep us safe from harm, and sin, 
Foes around us, and within ; 
May we see Thee ever nigh, 
Ever walk as in Thine eve. 



Lead us onward. Lord, we pray, 
To the pure and perfect Day, 
Where we may the Glory see 
Of the Blessed Trinity. 



Evenim. Ixvii 



9- 

Gioiy to the Father be, 
Glory, Light of Light, to Thee ; 
With the Father and the Son 
Praise the Spirit, Three in One. 



Amen. 



EVENING^, 

I. 

THE Day is gently sinking to a close, 
Fainter and yet more faint the sunlight 
glows ; 
O Brightness of Thy Father's Glor}^, Thou 
Eternal Light of Light, be with us now ; 
Where Thou art present. Darkness cannot be, 
Midnight is glorious Noon, O Lord, with Thee= 

2. 

Our changeful lives are ebbing to an end. 
Onward to Darkness and to Death we tend ; 
O Conqueror of the Grave, be Thou our Guide, 
Be Thou our Light, in Death's dark Eventide ; 
Then in our mortal hour w^ill be no gloom, 
No sting in Death, no terror in the Tom^b. 

' Tune : Eventide. Monk 14 j or Torhkire^ Monk 47 j 
or Dorchester, Mercer 39. 



Ixviii Evening, 

3. 
Thou, Who in Darkness walking didst appear 
Upon the waves, and Thy Disciples cheer, 
Come, Lord, in lonesome days, when storms 

assail. 
And earthly hopes and human succours fail, 
When all is dark, may we behold Thee nigh, 
And hear Thy Voice, '' Fear not, for it is I." 

4- 
The weary World is mouldering to decay. 
Its glories wane, its pageants fade away ; 
In that last Sunset, when the stars shall fall, 
May we arise, awaken'd by Thy call, 
With Thee, O Lord, for ever to abide 
In that blest Day which has no Eventide. 

Amen. 



HYMNS 



SUNDAYS AND HOLYDAYS. 



Hymn i, 

SUNDAY \ 



" This is the Day ivhich the Lord hath made ,• ive 'will rcjcice and 
be glad m it^ — Ps. cxviii. 24. 

I. 

ODAY of rest and gladness, 
O day of joy and light, 
O balm of care and sadness. 

Most beautiful, most bright ; 
On thee, the high and lowly, 

Through ages join'd in tune, 
Sing, Holy, Holy, Holy, 
To the great God Triune. 

^ Tunes to which this Hymn may be sung : E-zving^ in 
Monk 142, pt. iii. 5 Kcnigsburg, in Mercer 5. 

The Hymn for Trinity Sunday, below, No. i6o, may also 
be used on this day. 

B 



Sunday, 

2. 

On thee, at the Creation, 

The Light first had its birth ; 

On thee for our salvation 

Christ rose from depths of earth ; 

On thee our Lord victorious 
The Spirit sent from Heaven ; 

And thus on thee most glorious 
A triple Light was given. 

3. 

Thou art a port protected 

From storms that round us rise ; 
A garden intersected 

With streams of Paradise ; 
Thou art a cooling fountain 

In life's dry dreary sand ; 
From thee, like Pisgah's mountain ^, 

We view our Promised Land. 

4- 
Thou art a holy ladder. 

Where Angels go and come ; 
Each Sunday finds us gladder. 

Nearer to Heaven, our home ; 
A day of sweet refection 

Thou art, a day of love ; 

2 Deut. xxxiv. i — 4. 



Sunday, 

A day of Resurrection 

From earth to things above. 

5. 
To-day on wear)^ nations 

The heavenly ]\Ianna falls ; 
To holy convocations 

The silver trumpet calls, 
Where Gospel-light is glowing 

With pure and radiant beams ; 
And living water flowing 

With soul-refreshing streams. 

6. 
May we, new graces gaining 

From this our day of rest. 
Attain the Rest remaining 

To spirits of the blest \ 
And there our voice upraising 

To Father and to Son, 
And Holy Ghost, be praising 

Ever the Three in One. 

Amen. 



B 2 



4 Advent. 

Hymn 2. 

ADVENT 3. 

The First A'dnjent of Christy com'mi to %aue. 

I. 

SEE He comes \ whom eveiy nation, 
Taught of God, desired to see, 
Fiird with hope and expectation 

That He would their Saviour be. 
Sing, O sing with exultation, 

Lo ! He calls us to our home ; 
Peace, redemption, joy, salvation, 

Now from Heaven to earth are come. 

2. 
See He comes ! whom kings and sages, 

Prophets, patriarchs of old. 
Distant climes, and countless ages, 

Waited eager to behold. 
Sing, O sing v>'ith exultation, 

Lo ! He calls us to our home ; 

3 Tunes for this Hymn : St. Johns, in Mercer 1 6 j St. 
Thiomasy in Monk 39; Benediction, Monk 525 Alleluia, dulce 
carmen, Chope 18 j Gloria Patri, Crotch p. 44 j Salzburg, 
S. P. C. K. loi, Manual 6. 

For a statement of the principles on which the following 
Hymns for Advent are composed and arranged, the reader is 
requested to refer to the Preface to this volume. 

The three following Hymns may be used on any da) in the 
season of Advent. 



The Second Advent, 

Peace, redemption, joy, salvation. 

Now from Heaven to earth are come. 

3. 

See the Lamb of God appearing, 

God of God, from Heaven above \ 
See the Heavenly Bridegroom cheering 

His dear Bride with looks of love ! 
Glory to the Eternal Father, 

Glory to the Incarnate Son, 
Glory to the Holy Spirit, 

Glory to the Three in One ! 

Am EX. 



Hymn 3. 

The Second Ad'vent of Christy coming to judge ^. 
I. 

THE Day is come, the solemn Day of Doom ; 
The Judge appears upon a shining cloud ; 
And all mankind are waken' d from the tomb 
By the Archangel's trmiipet, clear and loud. 
The Dead come forth j and all, both sm^all and 

great. 
Are summon'd to God's awful judgment-seat. 

* Tune : Dorchester, in Mercer 39. See also p. i of Ap- 
pendix to this volume. 



6 The Second Advent. 

2. 

Ten thousand Angels are around their Lord, 
Forth issues from His throne a fiery flood ; 
And with the mighty mandate of His word 
He separates the wicked from the good ; 
These on the right, those on the other hand. 
Waiting their everlasting sentence stand. 

" Hide us, ye Hills, ye Mountains on us fall ! " 
With fear and piercing shrieks the guilty cry, 
And to the caves and rocks for succour call, 
^^ Hide us, O hide us from His searching eye, 
'^ O save us from the fury of His ire, 
" From the undying Worm and Lake of Fire ! " 

But O what joys the Saints of God await ! 
Bliss unalloy'd, and sunshine without night ; 
Christ opens wide to them His Palace-gate, 
And bids them drink of pleasures infinite ; 
God wipes all tears for ever from their eyes. 
And gives to them the Life that never dies. 

5- 
Thou Christ, who cam'st from Heaven our 

wounds to cure. 
And all the works of Satan to destroy, 
O purify us, Lord, as Thou art pure, 
That we may come to that unsullied joy, 



The Two Advents compared. 7 

And fashion'd in Thy glorious image be, 
And, by Thy Grace Divine, be hke to Thee ! 

Amen. 



Hymn 4. 

The First and Second Advents of Christ compared ^. 

DAUGHTEPv of Zion^ shout with joy, 
Thy King and Saviour see ! 
Meek, riding on an ass, a foal, 
Behold ! He comes to Thee ! 
In the Lord's Name He comes ! Hosannas sing, 
Daughter of Zion, shout ! Behold thy King ! 

2. 
The foal was yet untam'd, and bound ; 

But the Apostles say, 
" The Lord hath need of him j" they loose. 
And garments on him lay ; 
Palms strew the road, on him the Lord doth ride 
To Zion's gate, the mother at his side. 

^ Tune : see Appendix to this volume, p. 2. 
This Hymn may be also used on the Sunday before Easter. 
^ See Matt. xxi. i — 13, the Gospel of the week 5 and com- 
pare Mark xi. i — 11. Luke xix. 29 — 44. John xii. 12 — 19. 
Our Lord rode on the foal only ; not on its mother. 



8 The Two Advents compared. 

3- 
So, Lord, the Heathen World, untam'd, 

Was bound by chains of sin, 
But loos'd by Apostohc hands 
To Zion enters in : 
Christ rides upon it : Guide us. Lord, that we 
In Thy Jerusalem may ever be. 

4- 
Thou, Lord, who once didst meekly ride 

Upon the foal, art He 
Wlio rideth on the Heavens, the clouds 
Are chariots to Thee ; 
Thou on the wings of mighty winds dost fly, 
The Cherubim bear up Thy ^slajesty. 

.5- 
•' I savr "' Heaven open'd, I beheld 

One on a Vvhite Horse ride, 
Follow'd by Armies out of Heaven 
In white robes glorified ; 
His eyes like fire, their rays like flaming swords, 
His name is King of Kings, and Lord of 
Lords ! " 

6. 
Such at Thy Second Coming Thou 
Wilt be, at that great Day ; 

7 Pvcv. xix. II. 



Second Sunday in Advent, 9 

O help us by Thy Spirit now 
111 works to cast away, 
To walk in Love, as Children of the Light, 
And follow Thee in vestments pure and white. 

Am EX. 



Hymn 5. 

second sunday in advent k 

Christ enjer coming in Hcly Scripture. 
I. 

LORD, who didst the Prophets teach 
To prepare Thy way of old ; 
And by Thine Apostles preach 
Truths of wisdom manifold j 

2. 

Teach us to behold Thee, Lord, 
Present in the sacred Page, 
Living Word in Written word ; 
Coming thus to every age. 

3. 
Coming in King David's Psalms, 
In Isaiah's trumpet-call, 

s Tune: Gibkns, Monk 126, S. P. C. K. 83 j H^rts, 
Chope 40. 



10 Second Sunday in Advent. 

Coming in St. John's deep calms, 
Coming in the fires of Paul. 



4- 
Coming brightly from afar 
To the lands with darkness dim, 
On the Evangelic car 
Of Thy fourfold Cherubim ^ 

5- 
Thus, O blessed Lord, when we 
On Thy Holy Scriptures look. 
May we ever worship Thee, 
Coming in Thy sacred Book. 

6. 
So, when as a scroll is past 
Heaven, and Earth with all its strife. 
We may see our names at last 
Written in the Book of Life. 

7- 

Praise the Father, all that live, 
Praise ye, praise ye God the Son \ 
Glory to the Spirit give, 
Glory to the Three in One. 

Amen. 

Symbolizing the Four Gospels : see Rev. iv. 6—8. 



Thi7'd Sunday in Advent, 1 1 

Hymn 6. 

t:E1RD SUNDAY IN ADVENT K 
Christ ever coming in the Ministry of His Church. 

I. 

REPENT, repent," the Baptist cries, 
For near at hand is He 
Who with the Spirit Avill baptize ; 
The Incarnate Deity ! 
I am the Voice, He the Eternal Word : 
I but a servant. He the Almighty Eord. 



As Thou Thy Messenger didst send, 

O Lord, before Thy face. 
So send' St Thou ever, till the end, 
Thy Ministers of Grace : 
Thou comest in them ; all they have is Thine ; 
They are but channels. Thou the Source 
Divine. 

3. 

O blessed Saviour, may we learn 
Thee in Thy Church to see, 

^ Tune : see Appendix, p. 7. 

The Hymn below for St. John the Baptist's Day, No. 96, 
may also be used on this day. 



12 Fourth Sunday iji Advent. 

Thee in Thy Ministers discern, 
And in them honour Thee ; 
Thou at the Font and Altar, Lord, dost stand, 
Tending, unseen, Thy people with Thy Hand. 

4- 
• O may Thy Pastors faithful be. 

And feed with wholesome food 
Thy own dear Flock, redeem' d by Thee 
With Thy most precious Blood. 
So at Thy Second Coming we and they 
May in Thy heavenly Fold be safe alway ! 

Amen. 



Hymn 7. 
fourth sunday in advent^, 

C/irist enjer coming to His People in their Dangers and Distresses / 
see the Collect for the Week. 

I. 

THE Galilean Fishers toil 
All night, and nothing take ^ ; 
But Jesus comes, — a wondrous spoil 
Is lifted from the lake. 

2 Tunes: St. Peter's, Monk 12 j St. Marys, S. P. C. K. 
29, Manual p. 23, Crotch p. 8. 
^ Luke V. 5. 



Fourth Sunday in Advent. 

2. 

Lord, when our labours are in vain, 
And vain the help of men, 

When fruitless is our care and pain, 
Come, blessed Jesu, then ! 

5- 
The night is dark, the surges fill 

The bark, the wild winds roar : 
But Jesus comes ; and all is still, — 

The ship is at the shore ^ 

4- 
O Lord, when storms around us howl, 

And all is dark and drear. 
In all the tempests of the soul, 

O blessed Jesu, hear I 



A frail one, thrice denying Thee, 

Saw mercy in Thine eyes ^ ; 
The penitent upon the tree 

Was borne to Paradise ^ 

6. 

In hours of sin and deep distress 

O show us. Lord, Thy face ; 
In penitential loneliness, 

O give us, Jesu, grace ! 

John vi. 21. '" Luke xxii. 6i. ^ Luke xxiii. 43. 



14 Fourth Sunday in Advent, 

7. 
The faithful few retire in fear 

To their closed upper-room ^ ; 
But suddenly, with joyful cheer, 

They see their Master come. 



Lord, come to us, unloose our bands, 

And bid our terrors cease. 
Lift over us Thy blessed Hands, 

Speak, holy Jesu, Peace. 

9- 

In days, when Faith will scarce be found ^, 

And wolves be in the fold. 
When sin and sorrow will abound, 

And Charity wax cold ^, 

10. 

Then hear Thy Saints, who to Thee pray 
To bring them to their home ; 

Hear, when the Bride and Spirit say ', 
'^ Come, blessed Jesu, come !" 

Amen. 

^ John XX. 19. 26. ^ Luke xviii, 8. 

9 Mitt. xxiv. 12. 1 Rev. xxii, 17. 





Christmas Day. 15 




Hymn 8, 




CHRISI-MaS DAT 2. 


I. 

O IXG, sing this blessed ]\Iorn, 


o 


Unto us a Child is born, 


Unto 


us a Son is given, 


God Himself comes down from Heaven ; 


Sing, 


sing this blessed ]\Iorn, 


Jesus 


Christ to-day is born. 



2. 

^--Jesus Christ, the King of kings. 
Maker of all worldly things, 
Now descends from Heaven to Earth, 
To restore us by His Birth ; 
Sing, O sing this blessed ]^Iorn, 
Jesus Christ to-day is born. 

3. 

God of God, and Light of Light, 
Comes with mercies infinite j 
Joining in a wondrous plan 

Heaven to Earth, and God to Man ; ' 

j 

- Tunes: -Si^/^-^z/rg-, Mercer 379, Monk i 13 ; ^^ Vcni^ Scncte \ 
Spiritus^'" Monk 128. 



1 6 Christmas Day, 

Sing, O sing this blessed Morn, 
Jesus Christ to-day is bom. 

4- 

God with us, Emmanuel, 
Deigns for ever now to dwell ; 
He on Adam's fallen race 
Sheds the fulness of His Grace ; 
Sing, O sing this blessed Morn, 
Jesus Christ to-day is born. 

5- 
^ Truth and Mercy show their face, 
iVnd with loving kiss embrace ; 
Righteousness looks down from Heaven, 
God is pleased, and Man forgiven ; 
Sing, O sing this blessed Morn, 
Jesus Christ to-day is born. 

6. 
God comes dow^n that man may rise, 
Lifted far above the skies ; 
He is Son of Man, that we 
Sons of God in Him may be ; 
Sing, O sing this blessed Morn, 
Jesus Christ to-day is born, 

7- 
v^ Human flesh is nov/ become 

Christ's abode, the Godhead's home ; 



Christmas Day. 

Royal Palace, sacred shrine 
For the ^Majesty Divme ; 

Sing, O sing this blessed j^Iorn, 
Jesus Christ to-day is born. 

8. 
-^Now we rise, from prison free ; 
On we march to victoiy, 
Joyful banners are unfurl' d ; 
'Tis the Birthday of the World ; 
Sing, O sing this blessed ]vIorn, 
Jesus Christ to-day is born. 

9- 
--Now behold the rising Sun 
Hath His glorious race begun ; 
Now the Bridegroom from above 
Weds the Bride, with heavenly love : 
Sing, O sing this blessed ]\Iorn, 
Tesus Christ to-dav is born. 



O renew us, Lord, we pray, 
With Thy Spirit day by day ; 
That we ever one may be 
With the Father, and with Thee ; 
Sing, O sing this blessed Morn, 
Jesus Christ to-day is born. 

c 



Si. Stephens Day, 

II. 
Gloiy to the Father give, 
And to Son in whom ^ve Uve ; 
Glory to the Spirit be, 
Godhead One, and Persons Three. 

Amen. 



Hymn 9. 

^r. STEPHEN'S D^TK 

I. 

TO all the Saints of God on earth 
Their d:ath-day is their day oi birth ; 
Death is their Door of Life, the Sacred Way * 
By which they pass to realms of endfess day. 

2. 
And vrhence do all the Saints derive 
The life by which through death they live % 
From God made Flesh ; on Him their \drtues 

grow. 
He is the Fount from which their graces flow. 

^ Tune : see Appendix below, p. 3. 

On the relation of this Festival to Christmas Day, see the 
remarks in the Preface to this volume. 

* As the ''Via Sacra" or *' Sacred Way" at Rome was the 
road on which the Triumphal Processions passed to the Capitol j 



Sf. StcpJiais Day, 19 

3. 

We sang to God on yestermorn, 
When Jesus Christ for us was born ; 

And from His Birth the Saints their Birthdays 
date ; 

And in the Saints their Lord \ye celebrate. 

4- 
To-day the first of Martyrs dies, 
And dying enters Paradise ; 
Foes rage against him; but what gleams of 

grace 
Angelic shine on his transfiguf d face ! 

5- 
AVhile storms of stones around him fly, 
His soul is anchor' d in the sky ; 
" I see Heaven open'd, and at God's Right 

Hand 
The Son of Man," he cries, ^' in glory stand." 

6. 
" Jesu, receive my soul," he says. 
Kneels down, and then more loudly prays, 
" Lord, do not this their sin in memory keep " — 
And when he thus had said, he fell asleep. 

and as the " Via Sacra" at Athens was the road which led to the 
Temple at Eleusis, and to those Mysteries in which even the 
Heathen endeavoured to display the bliss of another world. 
C 2 



20 Sf. John the Evangelisf s Day, 

7- 
Lord, when we suffer here for Thee, 
Grant us Thy glorious Face to see, 
And on the Spirit's wings of Faith and Love 
Waft us from Earth to Light and Life above. 



Praises to God the Father give, 
And to the Son in whom we Hve ; 
And praise to God the Holy Spirit be, 
One everlasting God, and Persons Three. 

Amen. 



Hymn io. 
^r. john the evangelists dat k 

I. 

THE night is dark, the winds are high. 
The billows loudly roar. 
And beat upon the lofty cliffs 
Of Patmos' sea-girt shore ^ ; 
Where dwells a Prisoner for the Truth of Christ, 
Aged, alone, the loved Evangelist. 

^ Tune : see Appendix, p. 4. ^ Rev. i. 9. 



Sf. John the Evangelisf s Day, 1 1 

2. 

Dark clouds of Error hover round 

The Church ; and fierce the shock 
Of Persecution, which assails 
The everlasting Rock ; 
The Apostle waits in calmness mid the ruth, 
A living Martyr to Eternal Truth. 

3. 
O blessed Saviour, Thou didst then 

Thy lov'd Disciple cheer 
With radiant visions. Thou to him 
In glory didst appear \ 
Cloth'd in majestic power; and at Thy side. 
Pure from all earthly taint, the Church, Thy 
Bride. 

4- 
Thou, on whose bosom he did lean 

At Thy first Eucharist, 
Didst feed with wisdom from above 
The lov'd Evangelist ; 
Then, after waiting long, didst give him rest. 
Making him sleep in peace upon Thy breast. 

5- 
O make us loyal to Thyself 
In days of pride and strife \ 

7 As described in the Apocalypse, or Book of Revelation. 



22 The Innocent i Day, 

Make us to bear in patient love 
The Martyrdom of Life ; 
So may we, Lord, in heavenly glory see 
A pure and bright Apocalypse of Thee ! 



Amen. 



Hymn ii. 

T:UE INNOCENTS' DAT^. 



HOLY Jesus, Mighty Lord, 
Light of Light, Incarnate Word, 
Who didst take our fleshly dress 
In an Infant's helplessness, 
And didst pass to Manhood's stage. 
Consecrating every age ; 
Thou from whom all graces fall. 
Be Thou worshipp'd, Lord, by all. 

2. 

Planets, as their race they run. 
Drink their radiance from the Sun ; 



^ Tunes : Redhead 47, Monk 96 j St. Augustine, Metrical 
Tunes xxxi. 



The Innocents' Day. 23 

• 
Saints receive their holiness 

From the Sun of Righteousness. 

He ht up St. Stephen's face, 

Crown'd St. John's old age with grace, 

Gilded life's first lineaments 

In the Holy Innocents. 

3. 
At Thy Birth, Incarnate Lord, 
They were slain by Herod's sword ; 
But they, Lord, who for Thee died, 
By Thy Birth were glorified ; 
Thou, an Infant born, didst give 
Life by which they dying live ; 
Thou didst love them as Thine own, 
And didst set them near the Throne. 

4. 
Some, like Stephen, for Thee bleed, 
Martyrs both in will and deed ; 
Some like John, Thy law fulfiJ 
By the Martyrdom of Will ; 
Others yield their life-blood's price 
An unconscious sacrifice ; 
Thou, the Fountain of their Lights, 
Shin'st in all Thy satellites. 

^• 

Thou, who giv'st to Infants breath. 
And dost beautify by death. 



24 Sunday after Christmas. 

Thou hast woven in Thy crown 

These sweet flowers of Spring unblown ; 

Mortify in us and kill 

Whatsoe'er resists Thy will ; 

Make us Children, Lord, to be, 

Infants in simplicity. 

Amen. 



Hymn 12. 
sunday after christmas ». 



GLORY be to God on high. 
Love to man, and peace on earth ;" 
Was the Hymn which Angels sang, 
Blessed Saviour, at Thy Birth. 

2. 
Thou, O Lord, our Teacher art, 
Lying in Thy cradle low. 
Preaching there to all the world 
What is best for all to know. 

9 Tunes : Dix, Monk 645 Tranhy, Manual p. 108. 



I 



Sunday after Christmas, 25 

3. 
God has sent His only Son 
From the highest reahiis above ; 
Wondrous gift ! and surest sign 
Of a Heavenly Father's love. 

4- 

God's own Son, who made the world, 
Deign'd a little Child to be ; 
Make us cast away all Pride, 
And be lowly. Lord, like Thee ! 

^• 
God the Son our nature took. 
Joining Man to Deity ; 
Make us keep our bodies pure, 
And be holy, Lord, like Thee ! 

6. 

God the Son has will'd us all 
Members of Himself to be ; 
Make us seek each other's weal, 
And be lo\dng, Lord, like Thee ! 

7- 
Glory to the Father give. 
Glory to the Spirit be. 
And to our Incarnate God, 
Glory ever, Lord, to Thee ! 

Amen. 



26 The Circumcision of CImst. 

Hymn 13. 

the circumcision of christ ^o. 



GIVER of Law is God's dear Son, 
And from all blemish free ; 
Yet deigns He to obey the Law, 
And circmncis'd to be. 

2. 
On this Eighth day, He who abides 

In everlasting bliss, 
Receiv'd the Heaven-taught Name, and now 

Jehovah Jesus is. 

3- 
O blessed Jesus, in Thy Name 

What beams of mercy shine ! 
Bright rainbow set in our dark cloud. 

Salvation's glorious sign. 

4- 

O holy wisdom, heavenly love ! 

While Thy pure flesh does bleed, 
Thou, God's own Son, art manifest 

To be the Patriarch's Seed. 

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Manual p. 985 Ra'venscroft, Crotch p. l8« 



The Circumcision of Christ, 

5- 
Thus every Nation Thou hast made 

One in Thyself to be ; 
All Adam's race are Abraham's sons^ 

Jesu, by Faith in Thee. 



O make us, like Thee, to obey ; 

Give us Thy Spirit, Lord, 
And circumcise our hearts, that we 

May ever keep Thy Word> 

7- 
So, when the Dead shall rise, and all 

Bow at Thy Name Divine, 
Thou mayst, O Lord, our Jesus be, 

And we for ever Thine ! 



Glory to God the Father be, 

Glory to God the Son, 
Glory to God the Holy Ghost ; 

Praise to the Three in One. 

Amen. 



2 8 New Year's Day, 

Hymn 14. 
netv terr's datk 

I. 

ANOTHER Year has now begun 
With silent pace its course to run ; 
Our hearts and voices let us raise 
To God in songs of prayer and praise. 

2. 
Accept our penitential tears, 
O Lord, for sins of by-gone years ] 
And with the Blood w^hich Jesu spilt 
O wash away Thy servants' guilt. 

3- 
Father, Thy bounteous love we bless, 
For gifts and mercies numberless ; 
For life and health, for grace and peace, 
And hope of joys that never cease. 

4. 

Our Days and Years decay and die. 
Mementos of Mortality ; 
Make us to see our own brief hours 
In falling leaves, and fading flowers. 

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p. 295 Commandments^ Chope 6%'^ Angeh^ Mercer 128, Monk 
6, S. P. C. K. 7. 



New Year's Day. 29 

5. 
O Son of God, Thou Saviour dear, 
Teach us to walk as strangers here, 
With hearts in Heaven, that we may come 
To where Thou art, our Father's home. 

6, 
Make us to feel that Thou art nigh, 
We ever in our Master's eye, 
Mindful of that account to live. 
Which we to Thee, our Judge, must give. 

7- 
Thou, Christ, who makest all things new ^, 
O give us hearts both pure and true. 
That we as jewels ever Thine 
In New Jerusalem may shine ^. 

8. 
Grant us, O Comforter, Thy grace, 
And speed us on our earthly race. 
In body, spirit, and in soul, 
Right onward to the heavenly goal. 

9- 
Blest Three in One, to Thee we pray, 
Defend, and gTiide us on our way ; 
That we at last with joy may see 
The New Year of Eternity. 

Amen. 

2 Rev. xxi. 5. 3 Rev. iii. 125 xxi. 19. 



30 The Epiphany, 

Hymn 15. 

rue epifhant^ or the manifestation of 
christ to the gentiles k 



THE Heavens declare Thy Glory, Lord, 
Thy Love is written in Thy Word ; 
And we behold Thy blessed Face 
In works of Power, and words of Grace ; 
We see Thee, Lord, whene'er we look 
In Nature, and in Scripture's Book. 

2. 
Thy own prophetic Word of old 
Thy future Birth-place had foretold ^ j 
That Word's fulfilment now is graven 
In the bespangled page of Heaven ; 
The Star proclaims of David's stem 
The King new-born at Bethlehem. 

3- 
The Gentile Sages from afar 
Follow the leading of the Star ; 

^ For a statement of the principles upon which the following 
Hymns for Epiphany and the Sundays in this season are com- 
posed and arranged, the reader is requested to refer to the 
Preface. 

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nual p. 585 St. Chrysostom, Chope 13. 

^ Micah V. 2. 



The Epiphany, 3 1 

To Judali come ; the heavenly ray 
Of Prophecy then points the way ; 
They see the Star again appear ; 
How great their joy ! for Thou art here 1 

4- 
Not stagger' d by Thy low estate — 
To sense how low, to faith how great 1 — ■ 
Myrrh, Frankincense, and Gold they bring 
To Thee as Man, as Lord, and King ; 
To Thee they open all their store, 
And in the Child the God adore. 

5- 
Lord, make us with keen eye to heed 
All lights, by which Thou wouldst us lead ; 
Help us to toil o'er plain and hill, 
In glad obedience to Thy Will ; 
To see by Faith, and humbly fall, 
And give to Thee, w^ho givest all. 

6. 

Thou first to Gentiles wast display' d, 

An Infant in a cradle laid ; 

But all will see Thee on Thy Throne, . 

And Thee their Judge and King shall -own ; 

All Kings before Thee shall fall low, 

And ever}^ knee to Jesus bow. 



32 The Baptism of Christ. 

7- 
Lord, may the Isles Thy Law receive, 
And they, who know Thee not, beheve ; 
Arise, and on the Nations shine ; 
Thy Preachers fill wdth Grace Divine ; 
That all the World at length may see 
The light of Thine Epiphany. 

Amen. 



Hymn i6. 

rue baptism of christ \ 

I. 

I NEED to be baptiz'd of Thee, 
And comest Thou, O Lord, to me. 
The Greater to the less % " 
" So be it now, it is our will. 
Thus it befits us to fulfil 

The Law of Righteousness." 

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Magdalen College^ Monk 1 1 6 j St. Jude, Mercer 490 j Wurtem- 
berg, S. P. C. K. 645 Inspruck, Mercer 498. 

Hymn 18, the Hymn for the Second Sunday after Epiphany, 
on the Marriage of Cana, may be used on the Evening of this 



The Baptism of Christ. ^^ 

2. 

The heavens are open'd, from above 
Ghdes gently down the holy Dove 

Upon the Blessed One ; 
And hark ! from parted skies a Voice, 
" Well pleas'd in Thee I do rejoice, 

My own beloved Son." 

3. 
Messiah now by Heaven confest 
To Israel is manifest ; 

Therefore rejoice and sing ; 
Behold Him by the Father own'd, 
And by the anointing Spirit crown'd. 

Our Prophet, Priest, and King. 

4- 
Almighty Father, who, that we 
The sons of God in Him might be, 

Thine only Son didst give. 
In Him accept us, keep us Thine, 
And fill us with Thy Love divine, 

That we in Him may live. 

5- 
Thou, Lord, who didst not John despise, 
But bad'st Thy servant Thee baptize, 
So teach us to obey ; 

Day 5 the Second Lesson being from John ii., which relates the 
history of that JVlarriage Feast. 

D 



34 The B apt is7n of Christ, 

Thou, who didst purify the wave, 
And sanctify what did Thee lave, 

Our sins to wash away ^ \ 
6. 
Help us, O Lord, with quicken'd eye 
To mark, with ready will comply, 

With loving heart believe \ 
Teach us in all Thy means of Grace 
To see the lustre of Thy Face, 

And Thee in them receive. 

7- 
Thou, Holy Ghost, who, when the Earth 
At first was hastening to its birth. 

Didst on the waters move ^, 
And on the Second Adam fall ; 
Stream in Thine unction on us all, 

O bless us. Holy Dove ! 
8. 
To Father, Lord of power and might, 
Fountain of Love, and Source of Light, 

And to the Incarnate Son, 
And to the Spirit, glory be ; 
Praise to the Co-eternal Three, 

And to the Godhead One. 

Amen. 

^ " By the Baptism of Thy well-beloved Son Jesus Christ in 
the river Jordan didst sanctify vi^ater to the mystical washing 
away of sin." — Office for Baptism in the Book of Common Prayer. 

9 Gen. i. 2. 



Fii'st Sunday after the Epiphany. o^^ 

Hymn 17. 

flr^r sunday after the epiphant^k 

God manifest in the Fleshy in Christ as a Child among the Doctors 
in the Temple j as seen in the Gospel of this Week, 



AMID the Doctors of the Law 
In childhood Jesus sits, 
And to be catechiz'd by them 
In lowhness submits. 

2. 

" Son," Mary says, " O why on us 

This load of sadness bring % 
Thy Father, know'st Thou not, and I 

Have sought Thee, sorrowing?" 

3. 

Lift up thy heart, thou Mother dear. 

Lift up thine eye and see 
In Him, who is indeed thy Son, 

The Incarnate Deit}^ 

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p. 19. 

D 2 



^6 First Sunday after the Epiphany. 

4- 
His Father dwells in Heaven ; He comes 

His counsel to fulfil, 
And sitting in the Temple here 

He does His Father's Will. 

5- 

O Child most meek, Eternal Word, 

Enlighten us, that we 
May see Thy Mother's Lord and King, 

Creation's God, in Thee. 

6. 

To Nazareth He goes, when first 

To God that duty done ; 
AVith Mary and with Joseph dwells 

A reverential Son. 

7- 
O bless'd Obedience ! may we walk 

Like Thee, in life and death. 
Begin with God, — then gladly serve 
In lowly Nazareth. 

Amen. 



Seco7id Sunday after the EpipJiany. 37 

Hymn 18. 

second sunday after the epiphany \ 

The Manifestation of Chrisfs Godhead at the Marriage of Cana, 
as seen in the Gospel of this Week. 



THEY have no wine," Christ's Mother 
said, — 
But wouldst thou Him command 
Who made thee, Mary, and the world, 

By His Almighty Hand ] 
Woman, thy womanhood remember now, 
Not Mother of Christ's Deity art thou. 

2. 
" Mine hour is not yet come," He said ; 

God has no hour : but He, 
As Man, His suffering hour wdll have, 

When hanging on the tree ; 
Then when His sorro^^dng Mother He shall see. 
Thy Son with filial love will comfort thee -. 

3. 
" The waterpots with water fill. 
Draw out." By Will Divine 

1 Tune, Appendix, p. 7. 2 John xlx. 26. 



3 8 Second Sunday after the Epiphany. 

The Water has its nature chang'd, 

And reddens into Wine. 
At Cana's Marriage-Feast a welcome Guest 
Thus Jesus did His Godhead manifest. 

4- 
O Son of God, Thy mighty power 

Works in the shower and shine, 
And makes the golden clusters hang 

Upon the fruitful Vine ; 
Thou, Lord, unseen art walking in our fields. 
Giving to earth all increase that it yields ! 

5- 
Thou, Lord, to take our human flesh 

Wast by Thy Father sent. 
And joining us to God, hast chang'd 

Our natural element ; 
And Thou hast fill'd by power and grace divine 
Our earthly waterpots with heavenly Wine. 

6. 
Thou, Lord, the Bridegroom from on high, 

Hast to Thy Cana come. 
Thy Bride the Church is near Thy heart ; 

Thou art Thyself her home ; 
O keep us Thine by faith and love, that we 
Guests at Thy Marriage-Feast in Heaven may be. 



Third Sunday after the Epiphany, 39 

7- 
To Father, who the Son did send, 

To Son, who came in love, 
To Spirit, who on God made flesh 

Descended from above. 
Honour, and blessing, praise and glory be. 
One Everliving God, and Persons Three. 

Amen. 



Hymn 19. 

^eird sunday after the epiphany s. 

God manifest in the Flesh in Christ as the Physician of Body and 
Soul : as seen in the Gospel of the Week. 

I. 

DOWN from the Mountain Jesus came. 
And stretching forth His Hand, 
" Be clean," He said : the Leper then 
Was cleans' d at His command. 

2. 
Our Nature w^as defil'd by Sin ; 

But God from Heaven came down, 
Stretch'd forth His Hand, our Nature touch' d. 

And join'd it to His own. 

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40 Third Sitnday after the Epiphany. 

3- 
O God, made manifest in flesh, 

We render thanks to Thee, 
Thou great Ph)^sician, Who hast clean s'd 

A World from Leprosy. 

4- 

The Gentile Captain came in faith ; 

Thou blessest his appeal ; 
Far off as Man, but near as God, 

Thou dost his servant heal. 

^• 
Fever and Plague serve in Thy camp. 

They are Thy Soldiers, Lord, 
And when to Health Thou sayest, " Come," 

It Cometh at Thy Word. 

6. 
Stretch forth Thy hand, and heal us. Lord, 

In body and in soul ; 
From sickness and from taint of sin 

Cleanse us, and make us whole. 

7- 
To God, and to the Incarnate Son, 

Who rescued us when lost. 
Be glory now and evermore, 
And to the Holy Ghost. 

Amen. 



Foicrth Simday after the Epiphany. 41 

Hymn 20. 

fourrn sunday after the epiphany^. 

God manifest in the Fleshy in Christ deli--uering from Danger in 
Body and Soul : as seen in the Gospel of the Week. 

I. 

THE winds and billows wildly roar, 
We founder in the deep ; 
Our bark is frail, far off die shore, 
And Jesus is asleep. 

2. 
" Save us, we perish. Lord," they cr}^ ; 

" To Thee we fly for aid. 
^' Awake ! awake !" they say ; — But why 

So faithless and afraid % 

3. 
His Head is pillow' d on the stern, 

As Man He is asleep ; 
As God He all things does discern, 

And endless vigils keep. 

4- 
He does the Elements control ; 
By His Almighty Will 

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Mercer 331, Monk 153, S. P. C. K. 35. 



42 Fourth Sunday 

The angry waves their surges roll ; 
And at His Word are still. 



5- 

O ye, who in the Church's Bark 

O'er life's rough ocean sail, 
When all around is drear and dark, 

And human efforts fail, 

6. 

Touch not, with rude, irreverent hands, 

And coward faithlessness. 
Him, w^ho the winds and waves commands ; 

But wait in quietness. 

7- 
O never, never, when distrest. 

To doubtful means resort ; 
Christ's Bark, when on the billow's crest, 
Is safe as in the port. 

Amen. 



after the Epiphany. 43 

Hymn 21. 

The lame Subject continued ^ . 

With the Gospel of this Week (Matt. viii. 28) compare Mark v. I, 
&c., Luke viii. 26^ &:c. 

I. 

ONE with a legion of foul fiends possess'd, 
Who a fierce wanderer in dark tombs 
had been, 
Now rescued from those fiends, with mien com- 

pos'd, 
Sitting in peace at Jesus feet is seen. 

Once, a lost World, to Satan's power a prey, 
In Sin's dark tombs and desert caves did roam ; 
But Jesus came, freed it from Satan's grasp, 
Cloth'd it, and plac'd it in a peaceful home, 

3. 
Lord, when we wander in ^rild lonely ways. 
With moody minds, by troubled thoughts distrest, 
O come to us, reclaim us with Thy grace, 
O place us at Thy feet, and give us rest. 

4- 
The unclean herd was feeding on the hill : 
The Devils dispossest, by leave of Thee 

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44 Fifth Sunday 

Enter the swine, and with a whirlwind's force 
Whelm the two thousand headlong in the sea. 

5- 
O save us, Lord, from Satan and his doom, 
The Lake of Fire, that terrible abyss ; 
O cleanse us. Lord, that we may dwell with Thee 
In the pure regions of eternal bliss. 

6. 
To God the Father, and Eternal Son, 
And Holy Ghost, the Lord of Life and Love, 
To the Eternal Blessed Three in One, 
Be praise from all on earth, and heaven above. 

Amen. 



Hymn 22. 

FI¥T:h SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY \ 

God manifest in the Flesh, in Christ overruling Enjil for Good^ 
and bringing Good out of Evil, in the World and in the Church, 

as seen in the Gospel of the Week. 



G 



OD, when the heavens and earth were made, 
Pronounc'd them very good ; 



^ Tunes: St. Martins, Crotch p. 195 Bangor, Manual 
p. 115. 



after the Epiphany. 45 

To man free-born all fmits He gave, 
Save of one Tree, for food. 



2. 
Eve by the Serpent was beguil'd, 

And tempted Man to eat ; 
And now they wanderers are, exifd 

From Eden s happy seat. 

3- 
Satan by Woman work'd our woe ; 

And Man was captive led ; 
But God in ]\Ian, the Woman's Seed, 

Has bruis'd the Serpent's head, 

4- 
God's own dear Son, that all might live, 

His soul to death did yield ; 
He sows the good seed of His Word 

In the whole World, His Field \ 

J- 
But they who should be watchful, sleep \ 

Then comes our ghostly Foe, 
Sows Tares of Error in the Field, 

And vrith the Wheat they grow. 

7 Matt. xiii. '\%. 



46 Fifth Sunday 

6. 

Shall we uproot the Tares, O Lord I 

No : Do not antedate 
The Day of Doom, the Harvest-Day ; 

But wait, in patience wait. 

7- 

The mingled Field a seed-plot is, 

A consecrated ground, 
In which all Christian Virtues grow, 

All heavenly Fruits abound. 

8. 
Be not provok'd to quit the Field ; 

In gentle meekness live ; 
The Field is Christ's ; no other soil 

Can Grace and Glory give. 

9- 

The trial of the searching Time 
May make thy Faith more bright ; 

The Gloom of Error round thee spread 
i\Iay manifest thy Light. 

10. 

JV/f/i Tares ye are, but be not Tares ; 

Love sinners, not their sins : 
Tmst God ; where human labour ends 

Omnipotence begins. 



after the Epiphaiiy, 47 

II. 
Love sweetens all life's bitter streams 

By casting in the wood 
Of Jesu's Cross ^; unharm'd by ill 

It conquers ill with good. 

12. 
The Tares may exercise the Wheat 

To bear, and to forbear ; 
The Tares to Wheat may changed be 

By Faithj and Love, and Prayer. 

He who at Passover ^ denied. 

At Pentecost did teach ; 
He who now persecutes, as Saul, 

May be a Paul, and preach. 

14. 

The Tares proclaim the future Day, 

And pre-announce the End, 
When Christ the Lord will root them up, 

And all things that offend, 

^ See Exod. xv. 23. 25 : the waters of Marah. S. Jerom. 
In Mansion, v. : " His aquis si immittitur confessio crucis et 
Dominicse Passionis sacramenta jungantur, omne quod impota- 
bile et triste videbatur, vertitur in dulcedinem." 

^ Matt. xxvi. 69 — 75. Acts ii. 14. 



48 Sixth Sunday 

Lord, in that Day, when for the fire 
The Tares shall sever'd be, 

May we be garner'd in the Barn, 
The heavenly Barn, by Thee. 

16. 
Praise to our God and Father give. 

Praise to the Incarnate Son, 
And praise to God the Spirit be. 
Eternal Three in One. 

Amen. 



Hymn 23. 

sixt:ii sunday after the epiphant i». 

Recapitulation of the successi've Manifestations of Christ luhick hanje 
been already presented in the Serojices of the former iveeks through- 
out the season of Epiphany ,* and Anticipation of that future 
great and glorious Epiphany, at ivhich Christ ivill be mani- 
fested to all^ ivhen He ivill appear again to judge the World. 



S 



I. 

ONGS of thankfulness and praise, 
Jesu, Lord, to Thee we raise ; 



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Mercer 483. 



aftei' the Epiphany. 49 

^Manifested by the Star 
To the Sages from afar ; 
Branch of Royal David's stem 
In Thy Birth at Bethlehem. 
Anthems be to Thee addrest, 
God in Man made manifest. 

2. 
Manifest at Jordan's stream, 
Prophet, Priest, and King supreme ; 
And at Cana Wedding-Guest 
In Thy Godhead manifest ; 
Manifest in power Divine, 
Changing Water into AVine ; 
Anthems be to Thee addrest, 
God in Man made manifest. 

3. 

Manifest in making whole 
Palsied limbs and fainting soul ; 
]\Ianifest in valiant fight, 
Quelling all the Devil's might ; 
}Janifest in gracious ^^dll, 
Ever bringing good from ill : 
Anthems be to Thee addrest, 
God in ]\Ian made manifest 

4- 

Sun and ^^vloon shall darken d be, 
Stars shall fall, the heavens shall flee ; 

E 



50 Sixth Sunday 

Christ will then like lightning shine. 
All will see His glorious Sign : 
All will then the Trumpet hear ) 
All will see the Judge appear. 
Thou by all wilt be confest, 
God in Man made manifest. 

Grant us grace to see Thee, Lord, 
Mirror' d in Thy holy Word \ 
May we imitate Thee now, 
And be pure, as pure art Thou ; 
That we like to Thee may be 
At Thy great Epiphany ; 
And may praise Thee, ever blest, 
God in Man made manifest. 

Amen. 



Hymn 24. 

T^he Transfiguration : a Re'velation of Chrisfs Glory at His future 
great Epiphany^ or Re-appearing ,• and of the future glorified 
Bodies of the Saints ^^. 

I. 

AT Thy Transfiguration, Lord, 
Thy countenance did glow 

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after the Epiphany. 5 1 

Bright as the sun, Thy raiment shone 
And ghsten'd, as the snow. 

2. 
With Thee, in glory, Moses was ; 

And that prophetic Seer \ — 
Who in a fiery car to Heaven 

Was rapt, — did re-appear. 

3. 
Moses, the Giver of the Law, 

Was wdth EHjah there ; 
And by the Apostohc three ^ 

They recognized were. 

4- 
Blest Vision ! they who. Lord, are Thine 

In faith, while here below. 
Will be for ever Thine in bliss ; 

And will each other know. 

5- 
Although their bodies hid from men. 

Like that of Moses ^ be ; 
Scatter'd to winds, consumed in flame, 

Or whelmed in the sea ; 

1 Elias. See Matt. xvli. 2j Mark ix. 45 Luke ix. 29, 30. 

2 St. Peter, St. James, and St. John. 

3 Deut. xxxiv. 6. 

E 2 



52 Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, 

6, 

Yet Thou dost count the dust of each ; 

And at Thy Trumpet's call 
All bodies will again appear ; 

And each be seen by all. 

7- 
At Thy Transfiguration, Lord, 

Gleam'd forth that light Divine, 
With which Thy blessed Saints in Heaven 

Will ever with Thee shine. 



When Moses and Eli as then 

Convers'd with Thee, the theme 

Was Thine own precious Death *, with which 
Thou wouldst the World redeem. 

9- 
Mysterious converse ! To Thy Cross 

The Saints their graces owe ; 
Thy Cross the fountain is of light, 

From which their glories flow. 

lO. 

The streams of precious Blood which gush'd 

Forth from Thy wounded side. 
Cleanse Thy lov'd Church from earthly taint. 

And sanctify the Bride. 

* Luke ix. 31. 



Scptuagesima, ^o^ 

II. 

The splendours of her future bliss 

Are purchas'd by Thy Death ; 
The Crown of thorns that gall'd Thy brow, 

Weaves her bright bridal wreath. 

12. 

To Father and to Holy Ghost, 

And, Lamb of God, to Thee, 
Who grace and glory dost bestow, 

Eternal praises be ! 

A'^IEX. 



Hymn 25. 

SEP'rUAGESIMA ' 



l^he Creation ,- and Fall of Man ; and Institution of Marriage ; 

as seen in the First Lesson of this Day. 
Labour is necessary, hut all its efficacy and regard are due to 

Dinjine Grace ; as taught in the Gospel of the Week. 



HOLY, Holy, Holy Lord, 
Maker of this worldly frame ; 
Let Thy creatures ever sing 
Hallelujahs to Thy Name. 

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Lubeck, Mercer ico. Monk 21. 



54 Septuagesima, 

2. 

Man from earth Thou didst create 
In Thine Image, by Thy Word, 
Thou didst breathe into him hfe, 
Making him Creation's lord. 

And, when Man was laid asleep, 
Thou didst fashion from his side 
IMother of all living. Eve ; 
And didst give her for his Bride. 

4- 
They by disobedience fell, 
But Thou saidst in mercy, Lord, 
That Mankind should rise again, 
By the Woman's Seed restor'd. 

5- 
Christ, the Woman's Seed, is bom ; 
Christ, the Second Adam, gives 
Peace and Pardon ; by His death 
Man anew created lives. 

6. 
From Him, while He sleeps in death, 
Streams of Blood and Water flow ; 
And to them the Church, His Eve, 
Does her life and glory ovre. 



Septuagesima. 55 

7- 

AVe are in Thy Vineyard, Lord \ 
Thou dost us in Eden place ; 
We must labour, but the fruit 
Is the guerdon of Thy Grace. 

8. 

Nothing have we, Thine are all 
Showers that water, suns that shine ; 
Thine be all the Glor}-, Lord, 
All we are and do is Thine. 

9- 

Praise to God the Father give ; 
Glor}' be to God the Son ; 
Praise be to the Holy Ghost ; 
QAory to the Three in One. 

Amen. 



^6 Sexagesima, 

■ Hymn 26. 
sexagesima 6. 

T^he Fall. Man's expulsion from Paradise^ as related in the First 
Lesson of this Morning j and the F arable of the Soiver^ in the 
Gospel. 

I. 

THERE was of old a Place, 
A happy Place and fair ; 
No weeds did it deface, 
No barren nook was there. 



But in that lovely spot, 
Which blossom'd as the rose, 
Where weeds and thorns were not, 
Now many a bramble grows. 

3. 

Man's heart at first was free 
From weeds of sin and vice ; 
And planted, Lord, by Thee, 
It bloom'd hke Paradise. 

4. 
But now that Garden fair 
With thorns is overgrown ; 

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Sexagesima. 57 

Oft, as the wayside, bare, 
And harder oft than stone. 

5- 
O grant us, Lord, Thy grace, 
And help our weary toil, 
To clear this tangled place, 
And purge the weed-gro^\ii soil. 

6. 
With genial showers do Thou 
Soften our rocky parts ; 
In fruitful furrows plough 
The v/ayside of our hearts. 

7- 
The good Seed of Thy Word 
With firm and deep-set root, 
May we retain, O Lord, 
And bring forth timely fruit. 



So may again, — made free 
From weeds of sin and vice, — 
Our hearts Thy Eden be. 
And bloom like Paradise. 

Amen. 



58 Sexagesima and Qidnqiiagesima, 

Hymn 27. 

Another for SEXAGESIMA and ^IN^AGESIMA ^ 

Warning to jiee God's Judgments, and to accept His Means of 
Grace, though slighted and derided by the World : -with refer- 
ence to the History of the Ark, and of the Flood, as related in the 
First Lessons of this Season. 

I. 

" T T will not come, it will not come ;" 
X They reck not of the Flood. 
" And wherefore with such weary toil 

Build up that pile of wood ? 
How should thine Ark e'er reach the sea ? 
How on this midland floated be V 

2. 
The sea's great gulphs are broken up ; 

Heaven's windows open'd are ; 
For forty days the rain prevails ; 

The Mountains disappear. 
The faithless die ; the Ark, their scorn, 
Safe on the Flood, their grave, is borne. 

3- 
.. Lord, give us willing hearts to hear 
Not the World's voice, but Thine, 

7 Tune : Brunswick, S. P. C. K. 63. 



Qumqtiagesima, 59 

To fear Thy Warnings, and to love 

Thy means of Grace Divine ; 
Enter Thine Ark, and there abide, 
Unscar'd by wind and foaming tide. 



So when another Flood shall come, — 

Not Water, but of Fire, — 
When in the billowy surge of flame 

All nature shall expire. 
We in Thy heavenly Ark may be, 
Anchor'd on Ararat with Thee. 

Amen. 



Hymn 28. 
^in^agesima 8. 

The Grace of Charity, or Loije, as described in i 
TVeek. 



' Epistle of the 



GRACIOUS Spirit, Holy Ghost, 
Taught by Thee, we covet most ^ 
Of Thy gifts at Pentecost, 
Holy, heavenly Love. 

^ Tunes: Cape Town, Monk 1375 Churton, Monk 2195 
Bethany, S. P. C. K. 81. 

9 " Covet earnestly the best gifts, and yet show I unto you 
a more excellent way." — i Cor. xii. 31. 



6o Qicinqnagesima. 

2. 

Faith, that mountains could remove, 
Tongues of earth or Heaven above. 
Knowledge — all things — empty prove, 
Without heavenly Love. 

3- 
Though I as a Martyr bleed, 
Give my goods the poor to feed. 
All is vain, if love I need ; 
Therefore, Give me Love. 

4. 
Love is kind, and suffers long, 
Love is meek, and thinks no wrong, 
Love than death itself more strong ; 
Therefore, Give us Love. 

5- 
Prophecy will fade away. 
Melting in the light of day ; 
Love will ever with us stay j 
Therefore, Give us Love. 

6. 

Faith will vanish into sight ; 
Hope be emptied in delight ; 
Love in Heaven will shine more bright ; 
Therefore, Give us Love. 



Ash- Wednesday, 6\ 

7- 
Faith and Hope and Love we see 
Joining hand in hand agree ; 
But the greatest of the three, 
And the best, is Love. 



From the overshadowing 
Of Thy gold and silver wing, 
Shed on us, who to. Thee sing, 
Holy, heavenly Love. 

Amen. 



Hymn 29 ^ 
ash-jvednesdat 2. 

I. 

IN sorrow and distress. 
To Thee, O Lord, we fly ; 
In penitential lowliness, 
To Thee for mercy cry. 

1 See also below, the Hymn for Commination, No. 116. 

2 Tune : St. Brides^ Mercer 62, Monk 81, S. P. C. K. 49, 
Crotch p. 38. 



62 Ash- Wedjiesday\ 

2. 

Mercy, O Mercy, Lord ; 
From Thee we have our breath : 
And it is written in Thy Word, 
'' God willeth not your death ^" 

3- 
" God gave His Only Son 
Your sins to take away ^ ; 
And God's dear Son to Heaven is gone 
On your behalf to pray ^" 

4- 
By Thine own love we plead, 
O hearken to our prayer ; 
By Him, who for our sins did bleed, 
Spare us, O Father, spare. 

5- 
Our drooping minds refresh 
With showers of heavenly dew ; 
For hearts of stone give hearts of flesh, 
Renew us, Lord, renew. 

6. 
Comfort, and make us whole, 
With Thy free Spirit's grace ; 

3 Ezek. xviii. 32; xxxiii. 11. i Tim. ii. 4. 2 Pet. Hi. 9. 
^ Rom. viii. 32. i John ii. 2 ; iii. 5. 
5 Heb. vii. 25. 



Ash- Wednesday, 6^ 

Lift up, O Lord, upon our soul 
The lustre of Thy face. 

7- 
With Jesu's white robe hide 
Our manifold offence ; 
And cleanse with blood from Jesu's side 
Our tears of penitence. 

8. 
O m.ake us to abhor 
The sins that made Him grieve ; 
And ne'er to tempt the Spirit more 
Our thankless hearts to leave. 

9- 

Make us, O Lord, to tread 
The path which Jesus trod ; 
Which Him from earth in triumph led 
To the right hand of God. 

ID. 

So, with the Saints in Heaven, 
May we sing praise to Thee, 
For peace restor'd, and sins forgiven, 
To all eternity. 

Amen. 



64 Fii'st Sunday 

Hymn 30. 
firsr sunday^ in lent^. 

Prayer for godly Mortification ; see the Collect and Gospel of the 
Week. 



MAN fell from grace by carnal appetite, 
And forfeited the Garden of Delight ; 
To fast for us our Second Adam deigns, 
These forty days, and Paradise regains. 



2. 
So Moses fasted, and receiv'd the Law ; 
Elias fasted, and God's gloiy saw ; 
Moses, Elias, join'd with Christ our Head, 
Upon the Mountain were transfigured. 

3- 
O give us grace our appetites to tame,- 
To love Thy law, and glorify Thy Name ; 
That we may, Lord, with all Thy Saints and 

Thee, 
Upon Thy heavenly Hill transfigur'd be. 

^ See also the next Hymn. 

7 Tunes : Evensong, S. P. C. K. 59, Redhead 62 j Kendall, 
Chope 995 Conivay, Handbook 56. 



hi Lent, 6^ 

4. 
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost be praise ; 
Blest Three m One, to Thee our hearts we raise ; 
On wings of Prayer and Fasting may ^ve soar. 
Through Christ to dwell with Thee for ever- 
more. 

Amen. 



Hymn 31. 

another for the same sundays 

The Temptation ,* Chrisfs Victory onjer the Tempter by means of 
HOLT SCRIPTURE. See the Gospel for the Week. 

I. 

FIVE pebbles from the brook 
The shepherd David drew ; 
One of those five he took, 
And proud Goliath slew. 

2. 
He went forth all alone, 
No armour had he on j 
But with a sling and stone 
The victory he won. 

^ Tunes : ^am dilecta, Monk 64 5 St. Blaise, Chope 9. 

F 



66 Fi7'st Siuiday 

3. 
There is a holy Stream, 
By God's pure well-spring fed ; 
Bright polish' d pebbles gleam, 
Like jewels, in its bed. 

4- 
The Bible is that Brook ; 
The five Books of God's Law 
Jesus, our David ^, took ; 
One ^ forth from them did draw ; 

5- 
Unarmed and alone 
He went to meet the Foe ; 
And with that single Stone 
He laid the Tempter low. 

6. 
Sing praises to our Lord, 
Glad Hallelujahs sing, 
Who conquer' d by His Word ; 
Our Captain and our King. 

7- 
Lord, arm us with that Word, 
With Faith in Thee our Shield ; 

9 See S. Augustine, Serm. xxxii., and on Psalm cxliii. 
1 The Book of Deuteronomy j all our Lord's replies to Satan 
at the Temptation are taken from that one book. • 



i?i Le?it. 

AVe need no other sword ; 
Teach us that Sword to wield. 



Help us to put to flight 
Our Ghostly Enemy : 
Help us like Thee to fight, 
And give us victor}^ 

9- 

To Father and to Son, 
And Holy Ghost, to Thee, 
Eternal Three in One, 
Eternal don- be. 

Amex. 



Hymn for Ember Days, being Wednesday, Friday, and Satur- 
day after the First Sunday in Lent, see below, No. Ii8. 



F 2 



68 Seco7id Sunday 

Hymn 32. 

second sunday in lent^. 

The faithful Canaa7ittish Woman in the Gospel of thh TVeek, ac- 
cepted by Christ the Promised Seed of Abraham, in Whom all 
nations are blest .^ as declared in the first Lesson of last Sunday 
E'vening, 

I. 

WHEN Abraham upon the wood 
His only Son did lay, 
And at Moriah's altar stood, 
He saw by faith Thy day ^. 

2. 
Thou on the wood wert laid, O Lord, 

A ransom' d World to save ; 
He saw Thee in his son restor'd ^ 

Arising from the grave. 

3. 
His faith receiv'd a glorious meed, 

God promis'd that in Thee, 
O mighty Saviour, Abraham's Seed, 

All Nations blest should be. 

2 Tunes : Bristol, Monk 25, Met. Tunes xi. j Bath, Manual 
p. 78. 

3 John viii. 56. * Heb. xi. 19. 



m Lent, 6g 

4. 
In Isaac we the figure saw ^, 

We saw the Promise seal'd, 
The Gospel ^ now Hghts up the Law, 

The substance is reveal'd. 

Lo ! in the Faithful Canaanite 

The Gentile Church appears, 
Hasting in love to Christ her light, 

With earnest cries and tears. 

6. 

The answer was in love delay' d. 
That she might be more blest ; 

At length He said, " Great is thy faith," 
And granted her request. 

7- 
Lo ! Afric's ^ Land with bended knee 

Darts forth her hands to God ^, 
As Israel free went through the sea 

Parted by Moses' rod ; 



^ G^n. xxii., which was the Proper Lesson for last Sunday- 
afternoon. 

^ The Gospel for the present week. Matt. xv. 21. 

"^ Of the Canaanitish family. ^ Ps. Ixviii. 31. 



Third Sunday 



To Christ she comes. O haste the time 

When all as one shall be ; 
May every Race in every clime 

Be Abraham's Seed in Thee. 

9- 

Praise God the Father and the Son, 
Who sav'd the World when lost, 

And in Himself has made us one ; 
Praise to the Holy Ghost. 

Amen. 



Hymn ^Z* 

third sunday in lent\ 

Exhortation to Self-denial and to Purity and Chastity^ from the 
Epistle of the Weeky and from the Proper Lessons of the day, pre- 
senting the history of Joseph, a type of Christ, in his humiliation 
and subsequent exaltation to the right hand of God. 

I. 

AWAKE ! awake !" the Aposde cries ^ 
'' And Christ shall give thee light," 

9 Tunes: Brunswick, S.F, C. K. 63. See also Appendix to 
this volume, p. 9. 

1 In the Epistle of the Week. 



in Lent, 71 

Your own ye are not, live to Him, 

For His ye are by right ; 
Bought by His precious life-blood's cost, 
And temples of the Holy Ghost. 

2. 
O holy Jesus ! of all lights 

Thou art the Source divine ; 
Glimpses of Thee, in Israel's Child, 

And gleams of glory shine ; 
His light with Thine, O Lord, does rise, 
Joseph brings Jesus to our eyes. 

3* 
With chastity his course begins. 

He breaks the Tempter's snare j 
From prison to the King's right hand 

He mounts ; Thou, Lord, art there. 
We see the Chariot ; " Bow the knee " 
We hear, and think, O Lord, of Thee. 

4. 
Teach us to flee unhallow'd joys, 

As ever in Thine eye. 
And looking to Thy Cross and Crown 

To walk in Purity \ 
That through the Prison of the Tomb 
We to Thy Palace, Lord, may come. 

Amen. 



72 Fourth Sunday 

Hymn 34. 

fourth sunday in lent^. 

Christ enjer feeding His People in their Pilgrimage through the guil- 
der ness of this Ivor Id to the hea'venly "Jerusalem. 

Part I. 



THE Sun is sinking in the west ; 
And while its rays dedine, 
Gleams of the full-orb'd Paschal Moon 
On the calm waters shine. 



The Galilean waters hush'd 

In eventide are still ; 
Yet crowds of weary wanderers wait 

Upon the lonely hill. 

3. 
Pilgrims they are, for Sion bound, 

Whose Paschal Feast is near ; 
But the true Passover Himself 

Receives and feeds them here. 

2 Tunes : St. Anns., S. P. C. K. 34, Mercer 20, Crotch 
p. 3, Manual p. 735 Ra^jenscrofty Handbook 43 j Dundee, 
Monk 27, Chope 100. 



in Lent, 73 

4. 
They sit upon the grassy turf, 

Marshall' d in groups and rows ; 
Christ holds the food, which in His hand 

And by His blessing grows. 

5- 

He gives the food ; Apostles take, 

Distribute it, and then 
Two fishes and five barley loaves 

Regale five thousand men. 

6. 
O Blessed Lord ! The Earth is Thine, 

By Thy creative hand 
The golden Harvests crown the year, 

And deck the fertile land. 

7- 
O Blessed Lord ! Thou Bread of Life 

That Cometh down from heav'n ! 
Supplies of everlasting food 

By Thee to Man are giv n. 



Thy Godhead is the well-spring, Lord, 
The pure, exhaustless source. 

From which they flow through age to age 
In never-ending course. 



74 Fourth Sunday 

9- 

In channels form'd by Thee they flow, 

In rivulets of grace, 
Refreshing all who wander here 

In this world's desert place. 

lo. 
O feed us, weary pilgrims. Lord, 

And to Thy Sion bring, 
To keep a heavenly Feast with Thee, 
Our Prophet, Priest, and King. 

Amen. 



Part II. ^ 

Sequel to the ahon;e. 

j^fter feeding the finje Thousand Christ goes up into a Mountain 
alone to pray, and 'in the fourth ivatch of the night comes to His 
Disciples toiling in the Storm. See Matt. xiv. 22 — 33 5 Mark 
vi. 45 — 52 } John vi. 14 — 21. 

I. 

WHEN Christ had blest the loaves. 
And sent the crowd away, 
He to the Mountain did ascend. 
Alone He went, to pray. 

3 Tunes: Franconia, Monk 34; St. Petrock, Chope 875 
St. Michael^ Mercer 51, Monk 55, S. P. C. K. 46, Chope 90, 
Crotch p. 40, Handbook 32. 



ifi Lent. 


75 


Thou, Lord, the Living Bread 




To feed the world hast giv'n j 




And now Thou ever praying art 




Upon the hills of Heav'n. 




3. 
Thy Church is tost with waves. 




The night is drear and dark. 




A weary night to all who row 




In the storm-beaten bark. 




4- 
But Thou v/ilt reappear 




In the last watch of night, 




Walking upon the stormy sea, 




And shine with glorious light. 




All swellings of the proud 




Thou wilt beneath Thee beat ; 


i 


The billows of the World will be 




A pavement for Thy feet. 




6. 
And then, Lord, Thy Church 




In heavenly peace will be, 




Securely anchor'd evermore 




In the calm crystal sea. 




Amen, 


1 



76 Fourth Sunday in Lent. 

Part III. ' 

Chrht\ coming in the Night on the Waves to His apostles compared 
ivith His coming in the Holy Sacraments. 



THE Waters were Thy Path ; 
Thy Way was on the sea : 
Who in that night could trace Thy steps ? 
Who solve the mystery ] 

2. 
Some at Capernaum ask'd 
" When and how cam'st Thou here ^ '?" 
In vain they tried to find the track 
By which Thou didst appear. 

3- 
But Thy disciples, Lord, 
Did gladly Thee receive ; 
And then the ship was at the shore ^ : 
They pry not, but believe. 

4. 
Lord, in Thy Sacraments 
Thou walkest on the sea ; 
Let us not ask, " How dost Thou come '?" 
But gladly welcome Thee. 

4 Tune: St. Ethel^ald, Monk 181. 

5 John vi. 25. ^ Matt. xiv. 32. John vi. 21. 



Fifth Sunday in Lent. 



II 



J- 



Then will the wmds be hush'd, 
The waves no longer roar ; 
When Christ is with us in the ship, 
The ship is at the shore. 

6. 
Give to the Father praise, 
And praise be to the Son, 
And praise be to the Holy Ghost, 
Praise to the Three in One. 

Am EX. 



Hymn ^S- 

fifth sunday in lent 7. 

Christy the true High Priest^ entering mto the Holy of Holies ivlth 
His oivn Bloody shed once fr all to take aivay the sins of the 
ivcrld. See the Epistle of the Week. 

I. 

" T_T OLY of Holies," awful name — 
XjL Where, in a still retreat, 
The Presence of the Godhead dwelt, 

Upon the Mercy-seat ; 
Veil'd from the eye in darkness dim, 
Enthron'd betsveen the Cherubim. 

7 Tunes : Bruns^ick^ S. P. C. K. 63. See also Appendix 
I to this volume, p. 9. 



^8 Fifth Sunday in Lent. 

2. 

Once in the year, within the Veil, 

In mystic robes array' d 
The High Priest enter'd, and with blood 

An expiation made ; 
But blood of victims could not cleanse 
And purge the guilt of man"s offence. 

3- 

O great Redeemer ! God and Man, 

Victim and Priest in one ; 
Thou entering Heaven with Thine own Blood 

Didst once for all atone ; 
Thou hast remov'd the awful cloud 
Which once the oracle did shroud. 

4- 
Now a bright Rainbow o'er the Throne ^ 

Sheds lustre from above, 
Where showers of Judgment mildly shine 

Gilded by beams of Love ; 
Thy Blood, O Lamb of God, is there, 
Pleading for us with ceaseless Prayer. 

Cleans'd by that Blood we now approach 
Boldly the Throne of Grace ; 

^ See Rev. iv. 3. 



Sunday ?iext befo?'e Easter. 79 

O may we, following the Lamb, 

Come to that Holy Place ; 
Lord, who for us didst deigii to bleed, 
Be Thou our help in time of need. 

Amex. 



Hymx 1^6. 

sunday next before easter \ 

Jesus Christ our Example in suffering ivith Patience and Humility. 
I. 

r\ THOU, the Way, the Truth, the Life, 

^-^ Jesu, Creator, might}' Lord, 

Eternal Sire's Eternal Son, 

By hosts angelical adored. 

For us Thou deignedst to be bom, 

To suffer grief, and bitter scorn. 



^ Tunes : Swiss Tune^ S. P. C. K. 69 j Angers Song, 
S. P. C. K. 67, Met. Tunes Ixx. 5 Melita^ Monk 2225 Old 
112, S. P. C. K. 66. 

The Hymn above, No. 4, for the First and Second Advent 
compared, may be used on this Sunday. 

Also, the Hymn below, for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity, 
may be used on this day. 



So Sicnday next before Easter, 



2. 



To-day Thy Passion-Week begins \ 

Thou come St forth in lowly guise, 

A King, yet riding on a foal ; 

And while the Crowd " Hosanna " cries, 

Thou weepest o'er the City's fate. 

Most meek, and most compassionate 1 



3- 

In love Thou comest to Thine own, 
But by Thine own rejected art ; 
A place wherein to lay Thy head 
Jerusalem will not impart ; 
There is no room in her for Thee ; 
Thy home is lowly Bethany ^ 



4- 

O Man of Sorrows ! dark and drear 
The path is that before Thee lies, 
Gethsemane, the bitter cup, 
Depths of unfathom'd agonies, 
The weight of woes that on Thee lay, 
Nail'd to the Cross at Golgotha. 



^ Luke xxl. 37, ^8. 



Sunday next before Easter. 

5- 
But through that fierce and fiirious storm, 
Through all the hurricane and shock 
Of mocker}^ and fiendish hate, 
That beat like surges on the Rock, 
God brings Thee to the crystal sea 
Of glorious immortality. 

6. 
O Saviour, Thine Example shines 
With splendour luminous and pure, 
To all on life's dark billows tost, 
Like to the polar Cynosure : 
Guide us in meekness, Lord, with Thee 
To calms of blest Eternity. 

Amex. 



Hymn 37 -. 

Melchi%edek, the Type of Christ our Priest and King ,• as presented 
in the Second Lesson fr this Enjening, Heb. v. to i/. ii. 



BRIGHT beacon on an island rock, 
Above the stormy sea, 
Shines forth Melchizedek, O Lord, 
A glorious Type of Thee. 

2 Tunes : Gloucester, Crotch p. 8, Manual p. io6, Chope 39 5 
St. David's, Mercer 328, S. P. C. K. 26, Crotch p. 2, Manual 
p. 87, Chope 14. 

G 



I Sunday next before Easter, 

2. 

The King of Salem, — King of Peace, — 

And King of Righteousness ^, 
Comes forth a Priest, with bread and wine, 

The Patriarch to bless. 

3. 
Him Priest and Father, Levi's Sire ^ 

Did not refuse to call ) 
Him faithful Abraham rever'd, 

And gave him tithes of all. 

4- 
No predecessor as a Priest, 

No successor had he ; 
None can recount his years, nor trace 

His genealogy. 

5- 
Thou, Priest Eternal, Prince of Peace, 

" The Lord our Righteousness," 
Who standing art at God's Right Hand 

To pray for us, and bless \ 

6. 
And ever dost refresh our hearts, 

Bringing forth bread and wine, 
Pledges of pardon, means of grace. 

And gifts of life divine ; 

'^ Heb. vii. 2. * Abraham. Heb. vii. 10. 



Sunday next before Easter, 83 

7- 
O grant us grace to praise Thee, Lord, 

To Thee glad homage pay ; 
To trust in Jesus as our Priest, 
And as our King obey. 

Amen. 



Hymn 38. 

The Offices of Christ in the ivork of Redemption ^. 



HAIL ! the Woman's promis'd Seed, 
Born to bruise the Serpent's head. 
Help us. Lord, in will and deed. 
By Thy power on him to tread. 

2. 
Hail ! Thou Paschal Lamb Divine, 

Slain to save us by Thy Blood, 
Cleanse us by that Blood of Thine, 

Save us from the fiery flood. 

5 Tune : Adeste^ Fideles^ Monk 42, Chope 6, Met. Tunes 
xxxiii. 

G 2 



84 Monday before Easter, 

3- 
Hail ! Thou Prophet, Priest, and King, 

Teach us to receive Thy Word, 
Trusting in Thine Offering, 

Serving Thee, the only Lord. 

4- 
Thou, Who earnest once to save, 
And to judge wilt come again. 
Raise us now from sin's dark grave, 
That we, Lord, with Thee may reign. 

Amen. 



Hymn 39. 
monday before easter ^ 

Chrhfs Sufferings leading to Glory ^ ; as seen in the Epistle for the 
Week. 



W 



I. 

HO is this that comes from Edom, 
Clad in robes with carnage stain'd ; 



^ Tunes : St. Johns, Mercer 1 6, Manual p. 7 ^ St. Thomas^ 
Monk 39 j Benediction, Monk 52, or St. Werbergh, Handbook 
74 j ^''Alleluia, duke carmen,^'' Chope 18 ; Gloria Patri, Crotch 
p. 44 j Salzburg, S. P. C. K. 1 01, Manual p. 6. 

^ Hymn No. 24 above, the latter part, may also be used 
on this day. 



Mo?2day befoj^e Easte7\ 85 

Bringing victory and freedom 

By His martial prowess gain'd ? 
'Tis the Captain of Salvation 

Who is conquering in the fight, 
Rescuing a lost creation 

By His unassisted might. 



Lord, the course Thou art pursuing 

Is a course of glorious gain ; 
But the work which Thou art doing 

Is a work of bitter pain ; 
In a Passion-tide beginning 

It will lead to bright renown ; 
Thou by it a way art winning 

To an everlastino^ crown. 



3- 

Through Thy cloud of shame and sorrow 

Brilliant gleams of light appear ; 
Whence we hope and comfort borrow 

In our griefs and struggles here j 
Thou dost conquer Death by dying ; 

By Thy Death we ever live ; 
Thou to us in darkness lying 

Dost immortal Glory give. 



86 Monday before Easte7\ 

4. 
Cruel hands of sinners bound Thee, 

Thou a sinful World hast freed ; 
They with thorns in mocker}^ crown'd Thee, 

Placing in Thy hand a reed ; 
Now a starry Crown Thou wearest. 

Heavenly King, Almighty Lord ; 
Sceptre of the World Thou bearest. 

And by Angels art ador'd. 

5- 
QAoTy be to God the Father, 

Who has giv'n His only Son ; 
And in Christ does all men gather 

To Himself, and make them one ; 
And to Him, Who by His merit 

Gain'd for us the Victor)^, 
And to God the Holy Spirit, 

Glory, endless Glory, be. 

Amen. 



Ticesday before Easter, 87 

Hymn 40. 

tuesday before easter s. 

Chrht's exhortation to His Disciples on this day after the tvithering of 
the barren leafy jig-tree \ an exhortation to Faith in Christ in 
times oj trial, and to fruitfulness of life. 



THE Fig-tree near the wayside show'd 
Its bright leaves from afar, 
But those bright leaves, which look'd so fair, 
Now sere and blidited are. 



Green leaves it had, but fruit had none ; 

Christ came and look'd for fruit ; 
" Let none e'er eat of thee," He said ; — 

It wither d to the root. 



'^ Have faith in God -' " — yon City ' noAV 

Shines brightly in the sun ; 
Christ searches it : it shows much leaf. 

But fruit of Faith has none. 



^ Tunes : Luther's old or Proper 1st, Crotch p. 20 j R.edhead 
29, Monk 28 5 Abridge, S. P. C. K. 38, Mercer 257, Crotch 
p. 23, Manual p. 64, Handbook 2. 

9 See Mark xi. 22. ^ Jerusalem. 



8 Tuesday before Easter. 

4- 
Christ soon will witherd seem to be 

By that proud City's scorn ; 
But Passion-tide will lead Him forth 

To a bright Easter a\I orn. 

5- 
^' Have Faith in God." Be not perplex'd 

By Calvar}^'s Suffering ; 
From that dark Winter Christ revives 

To an eternal Spring. 

6. 
'^ Have Faith in God ;" that City proud,- 

That leafy barren Tree, — 
Will, by the lightnings of His Word, 

Wither d for ever be. 

7- 
The hypocrite, and evil man 

May flourish in the breeze 
Of wayside earthly Fame ; but God 

Will blidit all barren Trees. 



Root us in Faith, make us bear fruits 

Of Holiness and Love ; 
So may we ever flourish, Lord, 

In Paradise above. 



Wednesday before Easter, 

9- 

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost 

Eternal gloiy be, 
Whose grace enables to bear fruit, 

One God, and Persons Three. 

Amen. 



Hymn 41. 

V/EDNE^DyiT BEFORE EASTER 2. 

Christ's Prophecy hefcre His Passion concerning the Judgmtnts im- 
pending ever JerusaUm^ and the future Judgment of the TVorld 
typified by that national judgm.ent. — Mart. xxiv. i — 42. Mark 
xiii. 1 — 37. Luke xxi. 5 — 36. 



JERUSALE]\I : thy Judge will come 
With woes and desolation : 
Signs are appearing of thy doom. 
Distress and tribulation ; 
Rome is Christ's vassal, she will be 
His ^Minister of wrath to thee, 
And to thy guilty nation. 

^ Tunes : Altorf Monk 37, Mercer 26 ; Luther'' s Hymn^ 
S. P. C. K. 71, Manual p. 3, Crotch p. 34, Met. Tunes xlv., 

Handbook 23. 



90 Wednesday hefore Easter, 

1, 

He will thee visit for thy sin, 

And when His Hand hath found thee, 
Rome will with armies hem thee in, 

And cast a trench around thee ; 
Though now thy Temple shines so fair, 
No stone will soon be standing there. 

When once her troops surround thee. 

3. 
O mighty Earth ! Thy Judge will come 

With woes and desolation ; 
Signs are appearing of thy doom. 

Distress and tribulation ; 
With Angel hosts the Judge of all 
Upon the clouds will come and call 

The World to its probation. 

4- 
Thou Lord most glorious ! Who didst deign 

To die for our salvation. 
And everlastingly wilt reign 

In heavenly exaltation, 
O may we fear Thy judgments now, 
And then with joy before Thee bow. 
The Lord of all creation ! 

Amen. 



Thursday before Easter, 9 1 

Hymn 42. 

thurisdar before easter k 

T/ie Holy CommuniGn : the Blessed Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 
instituted on this day j see the Epistle for the Day ^. 

I. 

SON of God, Incarnate Word, 
Only Source of Grace art Thou, 
Thou the Fountain art, O Lord, 
Whence our hopes of Glory flow j 
God in Man, we have from Thee 
Life and Immortality. 

2. 

On Thy Passion's holy eve 
Thou a last bequest didst give, 
Whence we might the fruits receive 
Of Thy death, and by it live : 
Christ is in us, we in Christ, 
In the Holy Eucharist. 



^ Tunes: Ratlsbon, Mercer loi, Monk 5, S. P. C. K. 945 
St. Columba^ Chope 98. 

* See also Hymn 59 and Hymn 86, and Part iii. of 
Hymn 34, which may be used on this day. 



92 Thwsday before Easter. 

3. 

There Thou ever feeding art 
Faithful souls with heavenly food ; 
There Thyself Thou dost impart, 
And dost cleanse us with Thy Blood : 
There the Cloud with IManna teems, 
There the Rock with water streams. 



4- 
Faith, O Lord, Thee present sees. 
Faith beholds and touches Thee, 
In Thy holy mysteries, 
With devout humility. 
And the heavenly virtue feels 
Which from Thee flows forth, and heals. 

5- 
All unworthy. Lord, are we, — 
Sinners in a sullied dress, — 
But we come, that we may be 
Clothed in Thy worthiness \ 
Graciously receive us. Lord, 
Meekly coming at Thy word. 

6. 

Thou wert in a manger laid. 
And wilt not our hearts despise ; 



Thursday before Easter. 93 

He who humbly to Thee pray d 
Went with Thee to Paradise ; 

" Take and eat/' Thou, Lord, dost say ; 
"Drink ye all;'* — we, Lord, obey. 



/• 
Now, O Lord, v;e fear not death. 
We in Thee, and in us Thou, 
Thou our life-blood. Thou our breath ; 
Gates of Hell are conquer d now ; 
Christ who triumph" d o'er the grave 
Is omnipotent to save. 



Now we, Lord, Thy temples are. 
Now we peace and pardon fmd. 
Bond of Love and Balm of care. 
Courage, Health, and Light of mind, 
Pledge of Resurrection see, 
Hope of blest Eternity. 

9- 

Give us penitential Love, 
Give us Faith to feed on Thee ; 
Send Thy Spirit from above, 
That we. Lord, may welcome be, 
AMien from earthly toils releas'd. 
At Thy Heavenly ]\Iarriage-Feast. 



94 Good Friday, 

10. 

Glory to the Father give, 
Glory give to God the Son, 
Who did die that we may live, 
In Himself has made us one : 
Glory to the Spirit be. 
Glory everlastingly. 

Amen. 



Hymn 43. 

good fridatk 

The Atonement. Mans state, before and after it, compared ^. 



MANKIND in Adam fell 
From God. and peace has none ; 
Who can the enmity dispel, 
And Man with God make one ] 

5 Tune : St. Bride's, Mercer 62, Monk 81, S. P. C. K. 49, 
Chope 56, Crotch p. 38. 

6 The Hymn above, No. 24, the latter part, and other 
Hymns above, from No. 35, may be used on this day, in 
whole or in part. 



Good Friday. g^ 

2. 

The race of Adam lies 
Beneath a load of guilt ; 
^Vho can provide a sacrifice ? 
What blood for man be spilt ? 

3- 
AMio can for all men plead 
And Intercessor be ? 
Who, Lord, can help in time of need — 
Our Advocate with Thee ? 

4- 
The race of Adam lies 
In pain and sickness sore ; 
The malady man's art defies ; 
Who can their health restore ? 

5- 

The race of Adam lies 
In prison and in woe ; 
Who can enable them to rise, 
And libert}' bestow I 

6. 

The race of Adam lies. 
Far from God's presence driven : 
Who can recover Paradise, 
And raise us up to Heaven ? 



g6 Good Friday, 

The sons of Adam lie 
Expos'd to God's just ire ; 
Who can His anger pacify, 
And save from penal fire ? 



The Law of God demands 
Obedience to His will ; 
Who can accomplish His commands, 
And all His Law fulfil ? 

9- 
Christ, very God and Man, 
Giving Himself to die. 
As Man^ He for us suffer can ; 
As God^ can satisfy. 

10. 

Christ, very God and Man, 
Doth God and Man make one ; 
God with us, our Emmanuel, can 

For all mankind atone. 

1.1. 

Thou our Redeemer art. 
From guilt Thou dost release ; 
Thou dying, Lord, dost life impart. 
And Pardon, Health, and Peace. 



Good Friday. 97 

12. 

To Thee, O Lord, we flee, 

Our Helper in distress : 

Our Rock, we hide ourseh'es in Thee, 

^' The Lord our Righteousness.'' 

We fell by Adam's sin. 
And died by his offence ; 
New life to us, new joys begin. 
From Christ's obedience. 

14. 

In Thee, O Lord, we rise ; 
Through Thee we are forgiven ; 
By Thee we enter Paradise ; 
By Thee we mount to Heaven. 

15- 

Faith, in Thy Cross of shame 

An iVltar, Lord, espies, 

"WTiere bleeds a Victim free from blame, 

A spotless Sacrifice. 

16. 

Faith sees the Shepherd there, 
Sees Llim in death asleep, 
And gladly on His shoulders bear 
Mankind, His long-lost sheep. 

H 



9 8 Good Friday. 

17- 

There Christ with outstretch'd Hands 
Doth all the worid embrace ; 
In Him Man does what God commands, 
And sees with joy His Face. 

i8. 
The Cross a Trophy is, 
With glorious spoils array' d, 
Torn from our ghostly enemies, 
Triumphantly di splay' d ^ 

19. 

The Cross a Banner is, 
A glorious sign unfurl' d ; 
A Raft upon the flood's abyss, 
Saving a shipwreck'd w^orld. 

20. 
The Cross a Chariot is, 
A Car of victory. 

Where Christ the mighty Conqueror rides 
Up to His Palace high. 

21. 

There, by Death's second birth. 
To endless life He springs ; 
And carries us to Heaven from earth. 
Like eaglets on His wings. 

7 Col. ii. lij. 



Good Fi'iday. 99 

22. 
The Cross it is a Throne, 
On which He reigns as King ; 
His Might the Powers of darkness own, 
He plucks from Death its sting. 

O wondrous, wondrous Love, 
That God the Lord most High 
Should stoop to earth from heaven above 
For guilty men to die ! 

24. 
O therefore praise the Lord, 
The Father and the Son, 
For Peace proclaim' d, for Heaven restor'd, 
For glorious Victory won. 

O praise the Holy Ghost, 
Praise to One God be given, 
By Man, and by the Angel Host, 
By Earth, and Sea, and Heaven ! 

Amen. 



H 2 



I o o Easter Even. 

Hymn 44. 

easter even\ 

The blessed rest of the Gra-ve. 
I. 

UPON the sixth day of the week 
The first Man had his birth, 
In God's own image bright and pure 
Created from the earth : 

2. 
Upon the sixth da)^ of the week 

The Second Adam died, 
And by the Second Adam's death 

Man was revivified. 

3. 
Upon the seventh day of the week 

God from His works did rest. 
And on that holy Sabbath-Day 

The v/orks of God were blest : 



8 Tunes: St. Luke, Crotch p. 265 St. Peters, Monk 125 
York, Mercer 123, S. P. C. K. 24, Crotch p. 3, Chope 19, 

Met. Tunes viii. 



Easter Even, loi 

4. 

Upon the seventh day of the week 

Christ in the Grave did rest : 
The Grave is now a holy place ; 

A Sabbath for the blest. 

J- 
By tasting the forbidden Tree 

Alan fell in Paradise ; 
And on the Tree Christ tasted Death, 

And by His Death we rise. 

6. 
Christ in a Garden buried lay, 

Which spring-flowers did adorn ; 
And there our Resurrection bloonVd 

On the bright Easter r\Iorn. 

7- 

The Grave itself a Garden is, 
Where loveliest flowers abound ; 

Since Christ our amaranthine Life 
Sprang from that holy ground. 



He by the Spirit once was born 
Pure from the Virgin's womb, 

And by the Spirit once again 
Bom from the Virmn Tomb. 



I02 Easter Even. 

9- 

O give us grace to die to sin, 

That we, O Lord, may have 
A holy, happy Rest in Thee, 

A Sabbath, in the Grave. 

ID. 

Thou, Lord, baptiz'd in Thine own blood. 

And buried in the Grave, 
Didst raise Thyself to endless life, 

Omnipotent to save. 

II. 

Baptiz'd into Thy death we died. 

And buried were with Thee, 
That we might live with Thee in God, 

And ever blest may be. 

12. 

Lord, through the gi*ave and gate of Death 

May we, with Thee, arise 
To an eternal Easter-Day 

Of Glory in the skies ! 

Amen. 



Easter Day. 1 03 

Hymn 45. 

easter dat^ 

I. 

HALLELUJAH ! Hallelujah ! Hearts to 
Heaven and voices raise ; 
Sing to God a Hymn of gladness, sing to God a 

Hymn of praise. 
He who on the Cross a Victim for the World's 

salvation bled, 
Jesus Christ, the King of Glor}^, now is risen 
from the dead. 

2. 

Now the iron bars are broken^ Christ from death 
to life is born. 

Glorious life, and life immortal, on this holy 
Easter Morn : 

Christ has triumph' d, and we conquer by His 
mighty enterprise. 

We with Christ to Life eternal by His Resurrec- 
tion rise. 



9 Tunes: St. John's, Mercer 16, Manual p. 7 j St. Thomas, 
Monk 395 Chichester, Mercer 1365 St. Patrick, Manual 
p. 121. , 

The three following Hymns, Nos. 46, 47, and 48, may also 
be used on this day j and during Eastertide. 



i: 



104 Easter Day. 

3. 

Christ is risen, Christ the First-fruits of the holy 
Harvest-field, 

Which will all its full abundance at His Second 
Coming yield ; 

Then the golden ears of Hai*vest will their heads 
before Him wave. 

Ripen d by His glorious sunshine, from the fur- 
rows of the grave. 

4- 
Christ is risen, we are risen ; shed upon us 

heavenly grace. 
Rain and dew and gleams of glory from the 

brightness of Thy Face, 
That we, with our hearts in Heaven, here on 

earth may fruitful be. 
And by Angel-hands be gather d, and be ever, 

Lord, with Thee. 

5- 
Hallelujah ! Hallelujah ! Gloiy be to God on 

high. 
Hallelujah ! to the Saviour, Who has gain'd the 

victory \ 
Hallelujah ! to the Spirit, Fount of Love and 

Sanctity ; 
Hallelujah ! Hallelujah ! to the Triune Majesty ! 

Amen. 



Easter. 105 

Hymn 46. 

EASTER K 



IN Thy glorious Resurrection, 
Lord, we see the world's erection, 
Man in Thee is glorified. 
Bliss for which the Patriarchs panted, 
Joys by ancient sages chanted 
• Now in Thee are verified. 



Oracles of former ages, 
Veil'd in dim prophetic pages, 

Now lie open to the sight ; 
Now the Types, which glimmer d darkling 
In the t\vilight gloom, are sparkling 

In the blaze of noonday light. 

3- 
Isaac from the wood is risen ; 
Joseph issues from the prison ; 

See the Paschal Lamb \vhich saves ; 
Israel through the sea is landed, 
Tharaoh and his hosts are stranded 

And o'envhelmed in the waves. 

^ Tune : E--uangeIhts^ Monk 267. 



io6 Easter, 

4- 
See the cloudy Pillar leading, 
Rock refreshing, Manna feeding ; 

Joshua fights and Moses prays ; 
See the lifted Wave-sheaf, cheering 
Pledge of Harvest-fruits appearing, 

Joyful dawn of happy days. 

5- 
Samson see at night uptearing 
Gaza's brazen gates, and bearing 

To the top of Hebron's hill ; 
Jonah comes from stormy surges, 
From his three-days' grave emerges. 

Bids beware of coming ill. 

6. 
Thus Thy Resurrection's glory 
Sheds a light on ancient story ; 

And it casts a forward ray, 
Beacon-light of solemn warning, 
To the dawn of that great Morning 

Ushering in the Judgment Day. 

7- 
Ever since Thy Death and Rising 
Thou the Nations art baptizing 
In Thy Death's similitude ; 



Easter, lO/ 

Dead to sin, and ever dying, 
And our members mortifying, 

May we walk with life renew'd ! 



Forth from Thy first Easter going 
Sundays are for ever flowing 

Onward to a boundless sea ; 
Lord, may they for Thee prepare us, 
On a holy river bear us 

To a calm Eternity. 

9- 
Glor)^ be to God the Father, 
And to Him who all does gather 
In Himself, the Eternal Son, 
And the dead to hfe upraises, 
And to Holy Ghost be praises ; 
Glory to the Three in One. 

Amen. 



io8 Monday in Easter Week, 

Hymn 47. 

monday in easter week 2. 

l^he Walk of the tnvo Dhciples ivith Christ to Emmaui after His 
Resurrection. 

I. 

WHEN two Friends on Easter-day 
To Emmaus bent their way, 
On that Paschal eventide 
Christ was walking at their side. 
Then their hearts within them glow'd 
When Himself to them He show'd 
In the Scriptures as a King 
Glorified by suffering. 

2. 
Thou art ever with us, Lord, 
Walking in Thy Holy Word ; 
And Thy Voice, O Saviour dear. 
In that Holy Word we hear ; 
What the holy Prophets meant 
In the Ancient Testament, 
Thou art opening to our view 
In the brightness of the New. 



2 Tunes: St. George's, Monk no; Easter Hymn, Mercer 
94, Monk 107 (2nd Tune), Chope 38, S. P. C. K. 92. 



Monday in Easter Week, 109 

3. 
And we, Lord, Thy presence feel 
When we at Thy Table kneel ; 
When we feed upon Thee there, 
We too at Emmaus are ; 
Then our eyes are opened 
In the breaking of the Bread \ 
Faith Thee ever present sees 
In Thy holy Mysteries. 

4- 
Lord, we know Thee ever nigh, 
Though not kenn'd by carnal eye \ 
Though Thou art much further gone ^, 
Even to Thy heavenly Throne, 
Yet we, Lord, behold Thy face 
Ever in Thy means of Grace : 
There Thou walkest by our side, 
There Thou with us dost abide. 

5- 

Be with us in weal and w^oe 
As we on our journey go ; 
Be mth us in every age 
Of our earthly pilgrimage ; 

' See Luke xxiv. 28, and Augustine's Sermon upon it. 



no Tuesday in Easter Week, 

And on death's dark eventide 
May we see Thee at our side ; 
When we rise again, may we 
Live for ever, Lord, with Thee ! 



Amen. 



Hymn 48. 

ruesdat in easter week \ 

* * yesus said unto her^ Touch Me not^ for I am not yet ascended to 
My Father. ^^ John xx. 17. 

I. 

TOUCH Me not," to Mary said 
Jesus risen from the dead ; 
" For as yet I am not gone 
" Upward to My heavenly Throne ; 
" Quit Me ; bid My brethren know, 
" To My God and theirs I go." 

2. 

Not, O Lord, on earth art Thou 
Present to our senses now ; 
But with yearnings of our love 
Cling we to Thee thron'd above ; 
Faith Thee sees in Heaven stand. 
There she grasps Thee with her hand. 

* Tunes : Redhead 76, Monk 105 ; Sherborne, Manual p. 120, 
Metrical Tunes Ivii. 



First Sunday after Easter. 1 1 1 

3. 

Hearts and minds to Thee arise, 
Touching Thee above the skies ; 
Touching Thee when offering there 
Incense of prevaiUng prayer ; 
Pleading in Thy Father's eyes 
Thine atoning sacrifice. 

4- 
Give us grace to touch aright, 
Live by faith and not by sight, 
So, when earthly storms are o'er. 
May we reach the peaceful shore, 
And may there Thy Glory see. 
Dwelling ever. Lord, with Thee. 

Amen. 



Hymn 49. 

F1RS>t: SUNDAY AFTER EASTER K 

C/irist's commands to St. Thomas and to Mary Magdalene re- 

specti'vely^ compared. 

I. 

THE wounds which Jesus once endur'd 
Were stigmas of His shame ; 
But now they have for Him procur'd 
An everlasting name. 

5 Tunes : Chichester, Monk 30, Manual p. 18 5 Winchester y 
Mercer 139, Monk 44, Crotch p. 27, Manual p. 118. 



112 First Sunday 

2. 

The nail-prints, and the lance's scar, 

The work of fell despite. 
His bright triumphal trophies are, 

And badges of His Might. 

3. 

" Behold these hands ; at My command 
Touch them," the Saviour cried ; 

" Reach hither, Thomas, reach thy hand, 
And thrust it in My side." 

4- 
Thomas obey'd the Saviour's word, 

" My Lord and God," he said ; 
He own'd his Master and his Lord, 

And to his God he pray'd. 

5- 
O mighty Conqueror of the Grave ! 

To Thee be endless praise, 
For all the proofs Thy Mercy gave 

That Thou Thyself didst raise. 

6. 

For with Thee, Lord, we upward tend. 
With Thee Thy Members rise ; 

In Thine Ascension we ascend 
To realms above the skies. 



after Easter, 113 

7- 
Praise for the proofs that we receive 

Through Thomas, Lord, from Thee ; 
He doubted that we might beheve, 

And never doubtful be. 



Praise also for the lesson taught 

To our fond human love, 
When Thou didst raise a woman's thought 

From earth to Heaven above j 

9- 

" Touch Me not, Mary, for as yet 

I am not upward gone ; 
But touch Me when I shall be set 

Upon My heavenly Throne." 

10. 

Through Thomas we Thy Manhood know ; 

And, through the Magdalene, 
We learn to touch, while here below, 

Thy Deity unseen. 

Amen. 



114 Second Sunday 

Hymn 50. 
second sunday after easter ^. 

Christ as our Sacrifice for Sin and our Example of holy life ; iee the 
Collect^ Epistle^ and Gospel for the Week. 



ELISHA'S servant and his staffs 
Could not the Child revive ; 
But when the Prophet came himself, 
The Child by Him did live. 



The holy Prophet stretch' d his limbs 

Upon that little child ; 
And soon the child wax'd warm \\ith life 

And on its Mother smiled. 



^ Tunes: Westminster^ Mercer i66, Monk 149} London 
NeiVy Monk 192, Mercer 95, S. P. C. K. 27, Crotch p. 7, 
Chope 106. 

The Hymn below, No. 63, for the Third Sunday after 
Trinity, may also be used in this week, when Christ is displayed 
In the Epistle and Gospel as the Good Shepherd, giving His 
life for the Sheep. 

^ 2 Kings iv. 29 — 31, and S. Augustine's exposition, as cited 
in the next note. 



after Easter, ii^ 



3. 



O Lord, the staff of Moses' Law ^, 
Which Thou didst send before, 

Declar'd Thy Will, and show'd our death. 
But could not life restore ; 



But when our great Elisha came, 
Then, to our narrow span 

He did contract His Deity, 
And God drew near to Man. 



God did in Christ the cold poor Hmbs 
Of our low World embrace, 

x'Vnd God in Man revivified 
Our dead and fallen race. 

6. 

Thou coming down from Heaven to us 

Didst life by death impart : 
And Thou, O Lord, in life and death 

Our holy Pattern art. 

^ Compare S. Augustine, Serm. xxvil. and Serm. cxxxvi 
I 2 



1 16 Second Sunday after Easter, 

7- 
O ye, who would for ever live 

With Christ in heavenly bliss, 
Conform'd to His Example be. 

And let your mind be His. 

8. 

Stoop down, contract thyself, O Pride, 

Become a little Child ; 
Be like to Him Who lowly was, 

Meek, guileless, undefiled. 

9- 

Take up Thy cross, and in Christ's way 

O let thy feet be set 
Through Vale of low Gethsemane 

To heavenly Olivet. 

lO. 

Glory to God the Father be, 

Who sent His only Son ; 
Praise to the Son, and Holy Ghost; 

Eternal Three in One. 

Amen. 



Thwd Sunday after Easter, 117 

Hymn 51. 
'third sundat after easter k 



The Sacrifice of the Paschal Lamb, the type of Christ, the passage 
of the Red Sea, and the Victory of the Israelites onjer their enemies 
the Egyptians [figuratinje of the Triumph achie'ved for all true 
Israelites by the Death and Resurrection of Christ), halving been 
commemorated at Easter, the Church proceeds in her Proper 
Lessons for the First, Second, and Third Sundays after Easter 
to set before her people the precepts and ivarnings deri'ved from 
the History of the Israelites, especially in the deli'very of the Law, 
and in the dinjine judgments upon Korah ^ and his company, and 
upon those ivho ivere seduced by Balaam tempting to Idolatry and 
fleshly Lusts ^ ; and she inculcates the doctrines and ivarnings 
thence deri^ued, in the Collect for this Week, and in the Epistle : 
^^ Dearly Belo^ved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, ab- 
stain from fleshly lustsC^ I Pet. ii. II. 



SAV'D by Thy Blood, the Red Sea pass'd, 
Our Foes o'erthrown'by Thee, 
Strangers in this world's Wilderness, 
And Pilgrims, Lord, are we. 



9 Tunes : Tallis, Mercer 305, Monk 148, S. P. C. K. 22 ; 
Gloucester, Mercer 68, Chope 21 j Bishopthorpe, Manual p. 81. 

The Hymn below, for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity, 
may also be used on this day. 

1 Numb. xvi. 2 Numb. xxv. 



1 1 8 Third Stmday after Easter, 

2. 

But Thou art with us ; in the night 

Thy shining Pillar leads ; 
In scorching sands Thy streams refresh, 

Thy heavenly Manna feeds. 

3. 

Thy Church, O Saviour, holds the Law 
By Thy dread Godhead given. 

Preaches Thy Word, and taught by Thee 
Dispenses Grace from Heaven. 

4. 

Therefore, though Korah should gainsay, 

Thy Priesthood we revere ; 
And dread the doom of those who. Lord, 

Uncall'd, to Thee come near. 

5- 
Though Balaam eloquently preach, 

And gladly greet Thy day, 
Yet him we shun, if he allures 

Thy flock from Thee to stray. 

6. 
O keep us far from fleshly lusts ; 

For, cleans'd, O Lord, by Thee, 
Strangers in this world's wilderness 

And Pilgrims here are we \ 



Foin^th Sunday after Easter. 1 19 



Obedient to Thy Will, O Lord, 
And by Thy bounty blest, 

So may we reach the Promis'd Land, 
The Canaan of our Rest. 

8. 
Glory to God our Father give, 

Glory to God the Son, 
Glory to God the Holy Ghost ; 
Eternal Three in One. 

Amen. 



Hymn 52. 
fourth sunday after easter 3. 

The History of the Delinjery of God's Laiv from Mount Slnal in the 
ivilderness^ in the first Lessons of this and the folloiving Sunday^ 
accompanied 'with the application made in the admonition of the 
Christian Apostle St. yames, in the Epistles of those ttvo Sundays^ 
'' Be ye doers of the ivord, and not hearers only.'''' 

It may be obsernjed that the period of the Forty Years' Sojourn of 
the Israelites in the luilderness, after the Passo'uer and the passage 
of the Red Sea^ and before the entrance into Canaan^ the type of 
hea-ven^ is happily associated by the Church %uith this season of 

3 Tunes : Melcombe^ Monk 2, Mercer 148, Manual p. 665 
Winchester iV^w, Monk 35, S. P. C. K. 95 St, Bede^ Monk 53. 



120 Fourth Sunday 

Forty Days htHveen our Loras Resurrection and His Ascension 
into the heanjtnly Jerusalem ; and is made the occasion and 
groundivork of admonition to the Christian in his oivn course from 
his Baptism into Christ's Death and Resurrection^ and in his 
pilgrimage through this ivorld to the heanjenly Sion of his rest 
and joy. 



FATHER of Lights ! to Thee we pray, 
Guide us and cheer us on our way ; 
Lift up Thy countenance divine, 
And on our heavenward journey shine : 
The joys of earth are brief and vain, 
Her ghstening spangles quickly wane. 
Thy Light no change or shadow knows, 
But with eternal splendour glows \ 



Thou, Lord, who didst on Sinai's hill 
In cloud and thunder speak Thy will, 
And didst with Thine Almighty^ hand 
Inscribe on stone Thy dread command ; 
Write now the Law, which Love imparts. 
Upon the tables of our hearts ; 
With Thy free Spirit us inspire. 
Illume with light, and warm with fire. 

* See James i. 17, part of the Epistle of the week. 



after Easte7\ 121 

3. 

No ]yIirror, where with flickering ray 
The evanescent shadows play, 
No, but a faithful Chart, O Lord, 
To us is Thine unerring Word ; 
AVhere A\dth eyes riveted we trace 
The roads and rivers of Thy Grace, 
Which bear the pilgrim on his way 
To realms of everlasting day. 

4- 
Help us with faith Thy Word to read, 
And in our lives show forth our Creed \ 
Like Christ, to visit in distress 
The widow and the fatherless ; 
Not by the lures of sin beguiled, 
Not by the stains of sin defiled j 
But walking in the light of love 
To Thy Jerusalem abo^'e. 

Amex. 



122 I'ifth Siuiday 

Hymn c^i^. 

FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER, or the SUNDAY 
BEFORE THE ASCENSION K 

Christ noiv about to ascend into heanjen promises to send the Comforter 
after His Ascension^ in the Gospels of this and the foregoing iveek. 



THOU bidd'st us "visit in distress ^ 
The AVidow and the Fatherless ;'' 
And wilt Thou leave us comfortless ^ ? 
Wilt Thou depart ? 



Wilt Thou, O Lord, Thy Church forsake ' 
Must she a Widow's garments take 1 
Wilt Thou Thy children Orphans make '? 
O grief of heart ! 

3- 

No : Christ zvill visit in distress 
The Widow and the Fatherless ; 
Seeming to leave you comfortless 
He loves you most. 



5 Tunes : Troyte, Monk 170; Eternity, S. P. C. K. 57. 
^ James i. 27. The Epistle for the Week. 
7 " Orphans" in the original, John xiv. i8. 



jxfter Easter, 123 

4. 
For He departs, that He may send 
Another Comforter and Friend, 
To tarry with you till the end ; 
The Holy Ghost. 

5' 
At Thy first Birth, Thou, Lord, didst wait. 
And Fort}^ Days from it didst date, 
And then Thy Sion's Temple Gate 
Did welcome Thee ^ 

6. 

Old age^ with joy saw Thee appear, 
And Widowhood ^ found comfort there ; 
Perhaps the Doves ^, then offer' d, were 
A Prophecy. 

7- 
The Fortieth from Thy second Birth 
To endless life from womb of Earth, 
Will be a Day of joy and mirth 
In realms above ; 



^ At the Presentation in the Temple, forty days after the 
Nativity. Luke ii. 22 — 27. 

9 In Symeon, at the Presentation in the Temple. Luke ii. 

1 In Anna. See Luke ii. 27. 2 Luke ii. 24. 



124 Fifth Sunday after Easter. 

8. 
For then Thy earthly course will end, 
To Sion's gates Thou wilt ascend, 
To be our great High Priest, and send 
The heavenly Dove. 

9- 

Why then this sorrow and dismay ? 
'Tis good that He should go away, 
He goes, that He for you may pray, 
And never cease ; 

lO. 

He goes as Man, that you may see 
By Faith His present Deity j 
And here the Comforter may be, 
To give you peace. 

II. 

Therefore to Father praises be. 
To Son, and, Holy Ghost, to Thee, 
Praise to One God eternally. 
And Persons Three. 

Amen. 



Rogation Days. 125 



Hymn 54* 

ROGATION DATS, be:ng the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes- 
day before the ASCENSION of our LordK 



FATHER, we humbly pray 
To Thee, in whom we live ; 
Our countless sins, for Jesu's sake, 
Forgive, O Lord, Forgive. 



We have unthankful been 
For all Thy tender care ; 
Thine indignation we deserve ; 
But Spare, O Father, Spare. 

3- 

The creatures of Thy Hand 
IMade for Thy Glory are ] 
But we those creatures have abused j 
Spare us, O Father, Spare, 



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126 Rogation Days. 

4- 
From Plague and Pestilence, 
From Famine, Fire, and Sword, 
From Storm and Flood, from Dearth and 

Drought, 
Deliver us, O Lord. 

5- 
From hard and stubborn hearts, 
Scorning Thy holy Word, 
From Discord, Strife, and Heresy, 
Deliver us, O Lord. 

6. 

With genial rains and dews 

Temper the circling year, 

With golden sunshine and fresh breeze ; 

Hear us, O Father, Hear, 

/• 
Sheepfolds and Garners fill, 
The Homestead and the Stall ; 
Orchards and Gardens crown with Fruits, 
Maker and Lord of all. 



Love in our households breathe 
Hearts ready to obey 
As in Thy sight, and as to Thee, 
Give us, O Lord, we pray. 



Rogatioii Days, 

9- 

Bless, Lord, our gracious Queen, 
With Thy best bounties bless ; 
Grant her a long and glorious Reign 
In peace and quietness. 

lO. 

Bless, Lord, Thy Holy Church, 
With heavenly graces bless. 
That it may flourish and abound 
In love and godliness. 

II. 

Bishops and Clergy bless ; 
Holy, and grave, and wise. 
Faithful and zealous may they be 
In all their ministries. 

12. 

Our ancient Minsters bless, 
Where deep-toned organs peal ; 
And Village-Churches amxong trees, 
Where peaceful peasants kneel. 

Our Schools of Learning bless, 
Our Colleges and Halls ; 
May Piety and Wisdom dwell 
Ever within their walls 1 



128 Rogation Days. 

14. 

Counsel in Senates give, 

Justice and Law maintain ; 

And make Contentment in all hearts 

And Loyalty to reign. 

Our Fleets and Armies bless 
With Courage from on high ; 
And in all just and righteous Wars 
Give them the Victory. 

16. 
The Widow desolate, 
The Children fatherless, 
All who in grief and sorrow are, 
Comfort, O Lord, and bless. 

The erring and in sin, 
All, Lord, who from Thee stray, 
Bring them, O bring them back again 
To Thy most holy Way. 

18. 

All who to heathen climes 
Go forth and preach Thy Word, 
Bearing glad tidings of good things, 
Speed tliem, and help them, Lord. 



Ascension Day, 129 

jp. 
May all who sit in gloom 
Thy glorious light behold, 
One Faith, one Lord and Father own, 
One Shepherd, and one Fold ! 

20. 
So may we all with Christ 
To highest heaven ascend, 
And Hallelujahs sing to Thee 
Through ages without end. 

Amen. 



Hymn ^c^, 
ascension dat^. 

I. 

SEE the Conqueror mounts in triumph, see 
the King in royal state, 
Riding on the clouds His chariot, to His hea- 
venly Palace gate ; 
Hark, the quires of angel voices joyful Halle- 
lujahs sing. 
And the portals high are hfted, to receive then* 
heavenly King. 

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K 



130 Ascension Day. 

2. 

Who is this that comes in glory, with the trump 

of jubilee % 
Lord of battles, God of armies, He has gain'd 

the victory ; 
^ He who on the Cross did suffer. He who from 

the grave arose, 
He has vanquished Sin and Satan, He by death 

has spoird His foes. 

3. 

While He raised His hands in blessing, He was 

parted from His friends ; 
While their eager eyes behold Him, He upon 

the clouds ascends ; 
He who walk'd with God, and pleased Him, 

preaching truth and doom to come. 
He, our Enoch, is translated to His everlasting 

home. 

4- 

Now our heavenly Aaron enters, ^\ith His blood, 
within the veil j 

Joshua now is come to Canaan, and the kings 
before Him quail ; 

Now He plants the tribes of Israel in their pro- 
mised resting-place ; 

Now our Great Elijah offers double portion of 
His grace. 



Ascension Day. 13 c 

5- 
Thou hast rais'd our human nature on the clouds 

to God's right hand, 
There we sit in heavenly places, there with Thee 

in glor)' stand ; 
Jesus reigns, ador'd by Angels ; Man with God 

is on the Throne ] 
Might}^ Lord, in Thme Ascension we by faith 

behold our o^Ml. 

6. 
Holy Ghost, Illuminator, shed Thy beams upon 

our eyes. 
Help us to look up with Stephen, and to see 

beyond the skies, 
Where the Son of Man in glor}^ standing is at 

God"s right hand. 
Beckoning on His Martyr army, succouring His 

faithful band. 

7- 

See Him, Who is gone before us, heavenly man- 
sions to prepare. 

See Him, Who is ever pleading for us with pre- 
vailing prayer \ 

See Him, Who ^nth sound of trum.pet and with 
His angelic train 

Summoning the w^orld to Judgment on the clouds 
^nll come again. 

K 2 



132 Ascension Day. 



Lift us up from earth to heaven ; give us wings 
of faith and love, 

Gales of holy aspirations wafting us to realms 
above ; 

That with hearts and minds uplifted we with 
Christ our Lord may dwell, 

Where He sits enthron'd in glory in His hea- 
venly Citadel. 

9- 

So at last, when He appeareth, we from out our 

graves may spring, 
With our youth renew' d like eagles, flocking 

round our heavenly King, 
Caught up on the clouds of heaven, and may 

meet Him in the air. 
Rise to realms where He is reigning, and may 

reign for ever there. 

10. 

Glory be to God the Father, Glory be to God 
the Son, 

Dying, ris'n, ascending for us^ Who the heavenly 
realm has won ; 

Glory to the Holy Spirit ; to One God in Per- 
sons Three, 

GI017 both in earth and heaven, glor}^, endless 
glory be ! 

Amen. 



Simday after Asce?ision Day. 133 

Hymn 56. 

sunday after ascension datk 

Christ ascended into hea-ven in order that *' ive might ha-ve a strong 
consolation, ivho ha've Jled for refuge to lay hold on the Hope set 
before us,'" [as an Anchor laid out by a rope from a ship,) ^^<which 
Hope ive ha've as an Anchor of the soul both sure and stedfast, 
and ivhich entereth into that ivithin the njeil, ivhither the Fore- 
runner is for us entered, e'ven Jesus^'' Heb. vi. l8 — 20. 



ON the dark billows of the world 
Distrest by storms are we ] 
Toss'd in a weather-beaten bark, 
Upon a troubled sea. 

O Lord, the Vessel of Thy Church 

Now rides upon the wave, 
And now with sudden plunge it seems 

To founder in the grave. 

3. 

But wherefore should we fear, since Thou 

Art now gone up on high ; 
And sittest on Thy heavenly Throne 

In glorious Majesty ? 

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134 Simday after Ascension Day. 

4- 

The Night and Day, O Lord, are Thine ; 

The Sea obeys Thy will ; 
The Waves, which rise at Thy command. 

At Thy command are still. 

We have an Anchor. Other ships 

Are anchor' d in the sea ; 
More sure and stedfast is our Hope ; 

Our Anchor is in Thee. 

6. 
With downward cables other ships 

On earthly hopes depend ; 
But we, who other moorings have, 

A heavenward line extend. 

7- 
Through the bright ether's liquid sea 

That viewless line ascends, 
By Thine Ascension borne to Heaven, 

Fix'd on Thy Throne it ends. 



By it we firmly anchor' d are 

In deep tranquilHty ; 
And with tenacious grasp of Faith 

By it we cling to Thee. 



Sunday after Ascension Day. 155 

9- 

Therefore^ though Tempests round us rage, 

Our Vessel safely rides ; 
Beneath the surge of fiercest seas 

A cr}-stal calm abides. 

10. 
With patience, Lord, we wait on Thee 

For succour in distress ] 
On Thee we wait, to Thee we pray, 

Leave us not comfortless. 

II. 

But send us, Lord, the Holy Ghost, 

To fill our languid sails, 
And wafr us onward in our course 

With His propitious gales; 

12. 

So Avhen our earthly voyage is done, 

And all our labours cease, 
In the calm haven we may be 

Of everlasting peace. 

Amex. 



136 Whitsunday, 

Hymn 57. 

whitsunday^. 

I. 

WHEN the Lord of Hosts ascended 
To His heavenly citadel, 
Soon the Holy Ghost descended 

Sent by Him with men to dwell ; 
Sign of Christ's Inauguration 

In the Kingdom of His Power, 
Largess of His Coronation, 

Royal Bounty, promised Dower. 

2. 

When the faithful were assembled 

On the Day of Pentecost, 
Winds did rush, the place it trembled ; 

Then came down the Holy Ghost ; 
Golden shower of consecration 

Tongues of fire were on them shed ; 
And that holy dedication 

Made an altar of each head. 



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Wliitsimday, 137 



Now the festive pentecostal 

Han*est-Home of souls they keep '^ ; 
With his sickle each Apostle 

Whitening fields goes forth to reap ; 
God with holy flame from Heaven 

Writes on hearts the law of Love ^ ; 
Jubilee ^ of sins forgiven 

Sounds its trumpet from above. 



Holy Ghost, Divine Creator, 

Who didst on the waters move ; 
Holy Ghost, Regenerator, 

Author of all life and love ; 
•Holy Ghost, Illuminator, 

Who didst then with Fire baptize ; 
Holy Ghost, Great Renovator, 

Come, the World evangelize. 



7 The Feast of Pentecost introduced the Wheat Harvest. 

^ The Law of Moses was given on Mount Sinai, fifty days 
after the Passover. 

^ The Fiftieth year v^^as the year of Jubilee 5 so the Pente- 
cost, or the Fiftieth, introduces the Christian Jubilee, v^^hen the 
Apostles began to preach Remission of Sins to all Nations. 



138 Whitsunday, 

5- 

Not in fire from heav'n descending, 

Not in earthquake, nor in shower, 
Not in wind the mountains rending, 

Now, O Lord, we seek Thy Power ; 
But in holy aspirations 

Now we seek and find Thee, Lord, 
And in quiet meditations 

On Thy everlasting Word. 

6. 
With the kneeling congregation 

Thou art in the House of Prayer ; 
Laver of Regeneration 

Is o'ershadow'd by Thee there ; 
Thou dost shed at Confirmation 

From Thy wing a Gift of Grace ; 
Eucharistic Celebration 

Has revealings of Thy Face. 

7. 
Guide of erring, go before us j 

Breeze in heat, refresh our soul ; 
Shed Thy genial lustre o'er us j 

Balm of sickness, make us whole ; 
In the hour of danger hear us \ 

After labour give repose ; 
In the days of sickness cheer us ; 

Guard in danger from our foes. 



IVJi it Sunday. 139 

8. 

Strengthen, warm, and purify us ; 

From the bands of sin release ; 
Comfort, counsel, sanctify us ; 

Give us love, and joy, and peace ; 
Patience, faith, and resignation 

Breathe upon us with Thy Breath ; 
And Thy heavenly consolation 

Give us in the hour of death. 

9- 

So when Earth with fruit abounding. 

Shall the Angel Reapers see. 
And the great Archangel sounding 

God's eternal Jubilee, 
We may join their gratulation, 

And to Father and to Son 
And to Spirit, adoration 

Ever give, blest Three in One. 

Amen. 



140 Monday 

Hymn 58. 

MONDAY IN WHirSUN WEEK '. 

Contrast of the building of Babel ivith that of the Christian Sion^ as 
displayed in the First Lesson of the Day^ and in the Sernjices of 
the Season. 

I. 

ONCE all the Nations were as one, 
And all did speak one speech ; 
Pride said, '' Come, let us build a Tower, 
Whose top to Heaven may reach." 

2. 

To see that City, and the Tower 
Which men did build, God came ; 

Scatters the builders, blasts the work ; 
Conf^tsioji ^ is its name. 

3- 
Another Tower and City now 

Is builded. Lord, by Thee ; 
Thy Sion, builded not by Pride, 

But by Humility. 

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2 Babel. Gen. xi. 9. 



in WJiitsim Week. 141 

4- 
Exalted by Thy Lowliness^ 

Thou art to Gloty gone ; 
The Spirit to the Builders Thou 

Dost send, to make them One. 

5- 

One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism 

That Holy City knows ; 
And thence One Gospel in the streams 

Of eveiy Language flows. 

6. 
Give us Thy Holy Spirit, Lord ; 

No Pride or Strife be ours ; 
Not Babel-builders may we be. 

But strengthen Sion's Towers. 

7- 
So may we in Thy Sion dwell, 

Jerusalem above ; 
Where but one Language will be heard, 

And that one Language, Love. 

8. 
With joyful song and jubilee 
This holy time we greet ; 
And praise the Father, and the Son, 
And Heavenly Paraclete. 

Amen. 



142 Tuesday 

Hymn 59, 

rUESDAT IN WHirSUN WEEK^. 

The Holy Spirit is so'vcreign and free in His operations^ and the Gi'uer 
of all Spiritual Gifts, as is declared in the Proper Lesson for yes- 
terday (i Cor. xii.) J and not tied to any particular place, as is 
shoixm in the First Lesson of yesterday e'vening by the history of 
Eldad and Medad (Numb. xi. 2.4 — 30) ; nor confined to par- 
ticular persons, but sometimes is gi'ven to enjil men, as in the case 
of Saul, in the First Lesson of this morning (i Sam. xix. 18 — 
24) ; and His gifts may be abused by those ivho ha've them, as 
ivas seen in the Second Lesson of yesterday e'vening (i Cor. xiv.) j 
and the true characteristics of the profitable use of His gifts are 
Lonje and tendency to edification, as is shoivn in that Lesson, and ' 
also in the Second Lesson for this Evening (i John iv.). Thus, 
ivhlle the Independence, Omnipotence, and Lo'ving-kindness of the 
Holy Spirit are manifested, it follows also, that, although Al- 
mighty God be not tied to any special means for the bestoiual of 
the Holy Spirit, yet, since He has been pleased to Institute and 
prescribe certain regular means for the mn^ueyance of His grace to 
us, ivhlch are pointed out In the Second Lesson for this Morning 
(i Thess. V. 12 — 24), and in the Epistle of this Day, con- 
cerning the Apostolic rite of Confirmation (Acts viii. 14 — 17), 
ive are bound to use those means for the reception of Divine Grace, ■ 
ivhlch ive derive through the means from Him Who Instituted the 
means, and Who is pleased to 'work by them. 



N 



OT bound by chains, nor pent in cells, 
Of person or of place, 

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in Whitsicn Week. 143 

But like the air, untrammeird blow 
The breezes of Thy Grace. 



Not only Moses in the cloud 
With heavenly flame was fir d ; 

Eldad and Medad in the camp 
Were, Lord, by Thee inspird. 

t .^- 

A Balaam and a Caiaphas 

May prophesy of Thee ; 
Saul also may, though David's foe, 

Among the Prophets be. 

4- 
Not Prophecy, nor Tongues, nor Faith 

That mountains could remove, 
Will profit him who has those gifts, 

Without the grace of Love. 

5- 
As Beacons fade, though some may live 

Saved by their guiding ray. 
So he who does to others preach 

May be a cast-away. 

6. 

The Spirit is not tied to means, 

But sovereign is and free ; 
But when Thou hast prescribed the means, 

Tied to those means are we. 



144 Tuesday i7i Whitsun Week, 

7- 
No Abanas or Pharpars, Lord, 

To Jordan we prefer ; 
But in Thy order'd means of Grace 

We seek the Comforter. 

8. 
We love the means, for they are Thine, 

Which heavenly life impact ; 
They channels are, through which it flows ; 

But Thou the Fountain art. 

9- 

The vessel of our thirsting hearts 

To Thee in them we bring ; 
O grant us, Lord, in Heaven to drink 

Of Thine Eternal Spring. 



To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
One God and Persons Three, 

For gifts of grace, and hopes of bliss, 
All praise and glory be. 

Amen. 



Hymn for Ember Days, being the Wednesday. Friday, and 
Saturday after Pentecost j see below, No. Ii8. 



Trinity Sicnday, 145 

Hymn 60. 
rRiNirr sundat^. 

I. 

HOLY, Holy, Holy, Lord, 
God of Hosts, Eternal King, 
By the heavens and earth ador'd ; 
Angels and Archangels smg. 
Chanting everlastingly, 
To the Blessed Trinity. 

2. 
Since by Thee were all things made. 
And in Thee do all things live, 
Be to Thee all honour paid. 
Praise to Thee let all things give, 
Singing everlastingly 
To the Blessed Trinity. 

3- 
Thousands, tens of thousands, stand, 
Spirits blest, before the Throne, 
Speeding thence at Thy command, 
And, when Thy commands are done, 
Singing everlastingly 
To the Blessed Trinity. 

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146 Tniiity Simday. 

4- 
Cherubim and Seraphim 
Veil their faces with their wings ; 
Eyes of Angels are too dim 
To behold the King of Kings, 
While they sing eternally 
To the Blessed Trinity. 

5- 
Thee Apostles, Prophets Thee, 
Thee the noble Martyr band, 
Praise with solemn jubilee, 
Thee the Church in every land ; 
Singing everlastingly 
To the Blessed Trinity. 

6. 

In Thy Name baptiz'd are we. 
With Thy Blessing are dismiss' d ; 
And Thrice-Holy chant to Thee 
In the holy Eucharist ; 
Life is one Doxology 
To the Blessed Trinity. 

7- 
To the Father \ and the Son, 

Who for us did deign to die ; 
And to God the Holy One, 
Who the Church doth sanctify ; 
Sing we with glad Jubilee, 
Hallelujah ! Lord, to Thee. 



First Sunday after Triiiity, 147 

8. 

Hallelujah ! Lord, to Thee, 
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ; 
Godhead One, and Persons Three ; 
Join us with the heavenly Host, 
Singing everlastingly 
To the Blessed Trinity. 

Amen. 



Hymn 61. 

FIR^i: SUNDAY AFTER TRINITr K 

The intermediate state (i.e. the state of the soul after death^ and before 
the Resurrection of the Body and the Judgment to come) as re- 
njealed in the Gospel of the Week, 

I. 

WHEN from the body freed by death, 
And from this world of woe. 
The spirit of the just departs, — 
Then whither does it go % 

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148 First Stcnday 

2. 
The soul of Lazarus, who lay 

Sick, destitute, forlorn. 
To Abraham's Bosom went at death ^, 

On wings of Angels borne. 

3. 
The soul of him that pray d to Christ 

In death with tears and cries. 
Was carried on that self-same day 

By Christ to Paradise ^ 

4- 
Abraham's Bosom is a place 

Where faithful souls are blest, 
And at a holy banquet find 

Refreshment there, and rest. 

5- 
And Paradise a Garden is 

Of holy fruits and flowers, 
Where faithful souls hold converse sweet. 

As in an Eden's bowers. 

6. 
And in that Garden faithful souls 

In blissful calmness dwell, 
Till the last Trum.pet shall awake 

Each body from its cell. 

6 Luke xvi. 22. ^ Luke xxiii. 43. 



after Trinity, 149 

7- 
The Father of all spirits then 

Will soul and flesh unite, 
And bring them both, in glory join'd. 

To raptures infinite. 

8. 
Why therefore mourn, as without hope % 

Nay, rather praises give. 
For all who have in Jesus died, 

Have now begun to live. 

9- 

O may we so our bodies use, 

And so our souls employ. 
That Paradise may be our path 

To everlasting joy. 

10. 

To Father, and to Son, who made 

The Grave a gate to Heaven, 
And to the Blessed Comforter, 

Eternal praise be given. 

Amen. 



150 Second Sunday 

Hymn 62. 

second sunday after trinittk 

Triumph of Joshua and Deborah as displayed in the First Lessons 
of the present and foregoing Sundays. 



WHEN we the mighty acts of Joshua see, 
And conquering arms, we think, O 
Lord, of Thee ; 
Kings flee to rocks, but, drawn from their re- 
treat. 
Are plac'd by him beneath his captains' feet ; 
His triumph sheds a bright prophetic gleam 
Of that great Day, when Thou wilt reign su- 
preme ; 
For, King of Kings and Lord of Lords art 

Thou; 
And at the Name of Jesus all shall bow. 

2. 
When we the valiant acts of Deborah see, 
And hear her song, we think, O Lord, of Thee ; 



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afte}' Trinity, 151 

Awake, Awake ! — Thou, Lord, dost courage 

give; 
Weak are made strong, dead at Thy bidding live ; 
Spear, shield, horse, iron chariots, vain are all ; 
By feeble woman's hands proud Siseras fall ; 
For Thee with swollen tide old Kishon flows ; 
Stars in their courses fight against Thy foes. 

3. 

O Lord, where'er we in the Scriptures look, 
We see Thy triumphs blazon' d in Thy Book j 
Thou dost Thy servants with Thy love inspire. 
And warm Thy soldiers with a Seraph's fire \ 
Weak women wafted onward by Thy breath 
Lead martyrs' lives, and die a martyr s death ; 
Whatever great, or good, or fair we see, 
O mighty, loving Lord, we think of Thee. 

Amen. 



1^2 Th ii'd Sunday 

Hymn G^* 

third sunday after rrinittk 

Chrhfs love for the Lost Sheep^ as displayed in the Gospel of the 
Week. 



O WONDROUS love, that He, whose bhss 
No mortal can conceive. 
To seek mankind, His long-lost sheep. 
His heavenly Fold should leave ! 

2. 

O wondrous love ! that God's own Son 

His soul should deign to give. 
That by the Heavenly Shepherd's death 

The long-lost sheep might live 1 

3. 
Despising shame, foreseeing joy \ 

The cro^vn of thorns He wears, 
And on the Cross His long-lost sheep 

Rais'd on His shoulders bears ; 

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.^ Heb. xii. 2. 



i 



after Trinity, 153 

4- 

Bears it to heaven, in pastures green 

That alway it may be, 
And near fresh streams, and in His fold 

Live everlastingly. 

5- 
O love the Shepherd of the Sheep, 

And hear the Shepherd's voice \ 
Then ever with the ninety-nine, 

Thou, lost one, wilt rejoice. 

6. 
Praise to the Father, and to Him 

Who seeks and saves the lost, 
Praise, everlasting praise, be given ; 
And to the Holy Ghost. 

Amen. 



154 Fourth Simday 

Hymn 64. 

fourth sunday after trinitt^. 

The Creation^ represented in the Epistle of the Week as tranjaUing 
in pain ^ for a more glorious state of existence after the General 
Resurrection. 



OLORD, how alter'd is the face 
Of this World, once so fair 1 
The lands where Eden's garden bloom'd 
Now thorns and thistles bear. 

2. 
The Ground, where once unbidden fruits 

Enrich' d the fertile field, 
Now hardly will with painful toil 

A scanty produce yield. 

3. 

Earth, once made beautiful for man, 

Was blighted by his Fall ; 
And now with sympathizing grief 

Weeps at his funeral. 

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3 Literally, as in childbirth ,• see the original word in Rom. 
viii. 22. 



after Trinity. 155 

4- 

But lo ! the second Adam, Christ, 

A blessed hope displays, 
That He will Adam's fallen race 

To bliss and glor}- raise. 

5- 
O Lord, Thy Gospel reaches do^^^l 

From !Man to suffering Earth ; 
She travails now in pangs and throes 

For that Day's glorious Birth. 

6. 
That Birth through Death will her upraise 

From sorrow and distress ; 
New Heavens and Earth will then be bom, 

" Where dwelleth righteousness \" 

7. 
The Heavens and Earth, vrhen cleansed by fire 

From all things that defile. 
Will on that Resurrection mom 

Rise firom their fimeral pile. 

8. 

Who shall the fixture glories tell 

Of that fair Paradise ? 
Where God says Htde, they who are 

Most silent, are most wise. 

* 2 Pet. ill. 13. 



1^6 Fifth Simday 

9- 

To God Triune be thanks and praise 
For what His Word reveals \ 

Nor let Him less be glorified 
For what that Word conceals. 



Amen. 



Hymn 6k^. 
fifth sunday after trinittk 

The history of the prophet Samuel^ as presented in the First Lesson of 
this and the t^wo foregoing Sundays. 



OLORD, Who didst a Samuel give 
To Hannah's earnest prayers and tears ; 
Grant us a fervent heart to pray, 
In all our sorrows, hopes, and fears. 



5 Tunes : Melcomhey Monk 2, T^lercer 148, Chope 70, 
Manual p. 66, Handbook 31 5 Wareham^ S. P. C. K. 15, 
Crotch p. 33, Manual p. 48, Met. Tunes xlvi. 

The Second Hymn for the First Sunday in Lent, No. 31, 
referring to the History of David and Goliath, may be used on 
the Evening of this Day. 



after Trinity, 15^ 

2. 
O Lord, in whom she did rejoice, 
Extolhng Thee her God and King ; 
Grant us Thy Grace, for all Thy gifts 
A glad Magnificat to sing. 

3. 
O Lord, to Whom with joyful heart 
Hannah her much-lov'd Samuel gave ; 
Grant us Thy grace to bring the best 
To Thee, from Whom we all things have. 

4- 
Thou, at W^ose calling he replied, 
" Speak, for Thy servant heareth, Lord," 
O give us ready ears to hear. 
And willing hearts to do. Thy Word. 

5- 

" It is the Lojd ^" old Eli said, 

" Hide nothing from me, O my son 3" 

O grant us grace in deepest grief 

To say, " Thy will, not mine be done !" 

6. 
Will God be pleased with fat of rams ^ % 
Will He accept them as a price % 
O grant us ever grace to know 
Obedience is best sacrifice. 

^ I Sam. iii. 17, 18. ^ i Sam. xv. 22. 



158 Sixth Sunday 

7- 
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
Be Prayer and Praise and Thanks addrest ; 
O grant us grace to give ourselves 
To Thee who art for ever blest. 

Amen. 



Hymn 66. 

sixth sunday after trinitr^. 

The C/iristians Death unto sin, and Resurrection unto life, in the 
Holy Sacrament of Baptism, as presented in the Epistle of the 
Week ; and the Christianas prayer for Lo've, in the Collect of the 
Week. 



O LOVING Jesu, for us crucified. 
We, who are Thine, together with Thee 
died j 
We, Lord, with Thee were buried in the grave, 
When Thy Baptismal Waters us did lave. 



s Tunes : Enjentide, Monk 145 E'vensong, S. P. C. K. 595 

Comway, Handbook 56. 



after Triiiity, 159 

O mighty Jesu, Who for us art risen, 

We, who are Thine, then rose from sin's dark 

prison ; 
We, by Thy help, Death's iron bars did break, 
New hfe is ours, and glory, for Thy sake. 

3- 
O Conqueror Jesu, Who art mounted high, 
Bearing with Thee Thy Members to the sky, 
Lift us, O lift us, in Thy glorious flight, 
From Earth to realms of everlasting light. 

4- 
O King of Glory, from Thy Throne above 
Who didst the Spirit send of peace and love. 
That we from earth a heavenward course may 

hold. 
Give us His mngs, and feathers as of gold. 

5- 

O God Triune, baptized in Thy Name, 
We pray for heavenly light and holy flame. 
That firm in Faith, and walking in Thy Love, 
We may Thee ever praise in bliss above. 

Amen. 



i6o Seventh Sunday 

Hymn 67. 

seventh sunday after trinity k 

" Neither ^ill I offer burnt Sacrifices unto the Lord my God of that 
ivhich doth cost me nothing.'''' First Lesson for the E'vening. — 
2 Sam. xxiv. 24. i Chron. xxi. 24. 

I. 

LORD, not with poor and paltry gifts, 
And costless offerings, 
Approach we to Thy Throne of Grace, 
Thou King of kings. 

2. 
Thy Salem saw the Patriarch come 

An only Son to slay, 
O make us on Thine altar. Lord, 

Our Isaac lay. 

3- 

There David said, " I serve not God 
With that which costs me nought ;" 

So m.ay our best by us to Thee, 
O Lord, be brought. 



9 Tunes: St. Cuthbert, Monk 139 j Olmut^, Mercer 144. 
This Hymn may be also used on any occasion of a Collection 
for works of Piety and Charity. 



after Trinity, i6i 



Salem beheld Thy Temple rise 

In state magiiihcal ' ; 
May we be Temples, Lord, to Thee, 

Who dvest all. 



There God the Father gave the Son, 
The Son His Life did give, 

That we by His most precious Death 
]^Iidit ever live. 



O spare not silver, grudge not gold, 
That perishable pelf, 
j But freely give to Him, who gave 

For vou Himself 



And Salem saw the Holy Ghost 
Come do^^TL in golden shower : 

What gifts can we present to Him 
For that blest dower ? 



^ I Chron. xxii. 5. 



1 62 Seventh Sunday after Trinity, 

8. 
Bring Mary's ointment, Widows' mites 

Into God's treasury cast, 
And never with a Judas say, 

"Wherefore this waste?" 

9- 

So may we hke true IsraeHtes 

With joy to Salem come, 
And Treasure, House, and Father, have 

In Heaven our Home. 

lO. 

To God the Father Praises give. 
And Praise to God the Son, 

O Praise the Holy Spirit, Praise 
The Three in One. 

Amen. 



Eighth Sunday after Trinity, 163 

[y- Hymn 68. 

EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITr^. 

Disobedience and its punishment ^ as seen in the history of the Prophet 
from Judah, in the First Lesson of this Mornings contrasted ivith 
Obedience and its rewards^ as seen in the history of the faithful 
Prophet Elijah, and also of the faithful Wldozu of Zarephathy 
or Sarepta, in the First Lesson for the E'uening ; and as enforced 
by our Lord^s ivords in the Gospel of the Week, ** Beivare of 
false Prophets^"* and *' Not enjcry one that saith unto Me, Lord^ 
Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of hea'ven, but he that doeth 
the "will of My Father tuhich is in hea'venJ*'* 



NOT gifts of Prophecy can save, 
Nor courage be our stay ; 
Lord, make us doers of Thy Word, 
O teach us to obey. 



If God command thee to abstain 

From royal Bethel's fare, 
Taste not its food, though Angel hands 

Should spread a table there. 



2 Tunes : Bedfrd, Monk 153, Mercer 331, S. P. C. K. 35 ; 
Condescension, Manual p. 1 1 . 

M 2 



164 Eighth Siuiday 



3. 



The obedient Seer^ from Jordan's stream 

To trickling Cherith fled ; 
Him there the Brook, in time of drought, 

And hungry Ravens fed. 



Go to Zidonian Zarephath, 

To JezebeFs domain ^ ; 
Though Zidon's Queen may seek thy hfe, 

A Widow shall sustain. 



O Widow, fear not, but God's Seer 
With thy last morsel feed ; 

Who in His Prophets gives to God, 
Shall never suffer need. 



6. 

Thy meal exhaustless is ; to thee 
Rivers of oil shall flow ; 

Obedience is thine Olive-yard, 
Faith harvests can bestow. 



3 Elijah. I Kings xvii. 2, 3. * i Kings xvii. 9. 



after Trinity, 165 

7. 

By Faith, and by Obedience 

God's best rewards are won ; 
Thou dost a Prophet feed, and he 

Restores to thee a son. 



Thy pious senice is approved 
And blest by love divine ; 

O Zarephath, thy Widow's name 
Shall in Christ's Gospel shine ^ 

9- 

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost 
For Faith and Love we pray ; 

Thee ever may our voices praise 
And may our hearts obey. 

Amen. 

^ Luke iv. 26. 



1 66 Eighth Simday 

Hymn 69. 

another hymn for the eighth sunday 
after trinity^. 

History of Elijah the Prophet, as described in the First Lesson of 
the Afternoon of the Eighth Sunday , and in the tivo First Lessons 
of the Ninth Sunday after Trinity. 



THE Lord is God ! the Lord is God ' !" 
Lord, make us true to Thee, 
Make us in courage and in zeal 
Like to Elijah be ! 

2. 
If Thou dost bid us leave our home, 

And go to Cherith's rill, 
Or Zarephath, O speed us forth 

Obedient to Thy will. 

3. 
Help us in dark and evil days 

To see Thee ever nigh. 
And ever for the Truth to fight 

Of God the Lord most High. 

6 Tunes : Bristol, Monk 25 5 Windsor, Monk 183, Mercer 
177, S. P. C. K. 25. This Hymn may also be used next 
Sunday. 

7 See I Kings xviii. 39. The name Elijah means **The 
Lord is God.'' 



after Trmity, 16"] 



4- 



Though Baal's Priests four hundred be, 

And we be left alone, 
Yet on our Carmels let us stand, 

And Thee, Thee only, own. 

" The Lord is God ! the Lord is God !" 

The astonish'd People cry, 
When water was lick'd up by fire 

Down shooting from the sky. 

6. 

And how may hearts by us be moVd ? 

Where is our strength, O where '? 
Thou say' St ^, that "righteous men prevail 

By earnest, ferv^ent prayer." 

7. 

Elijah's prayer reviv'd the Child, 
And brought that fire from high, 

Elijah's prayer shut up the heaven, 
His Prayer unseal' d the sky.. 



James v. 1 6, referring to the prayers of Elijah. 



1 68 Eighth Sunday after Trinity, 



Not in fierce fires, or fiirious winds. 
Which rocks and mountains tear ^, 

But in the still small voice art Thou 
Of inly-breathing Prayer. 



O therefore, give us grace to pray ; 

And when beneath the shade 
Of earth's dark junipers we faint ^, 

Send Angels to our aid. 

10. 

Strengthen'd by food of grace divine 

May we to Horeb come, 
Pilgrims through this world's wilderness 

Travelling to Heav'n, our home. 



So, when our earthly race is run. 

May we to glory rise. 
Caught up, to meet our coming Lord, 

In chariots of the skies. 



9 See I Kings xix. ii, I2. ^ See i Kings xix. 5. 



Nijith Simday afte)^ Trinity, 169 

12. 
Transfigur'd ^ on Thy holy hill 

May we in glory shine, 
And ever see Thy blessed face, 

And be for ever Thine ! 

13- 
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 

One God, in Persons Three, 
Dominion, Adoration, Praise, 
And Glory, ever be ! 

Amen. 



Hymn 70. 

ninth sunday after trinitt 3. 

The Pilgrimage of the Israelites through the Wilderness to Canaan^ 
represented in the Epistle of the Week, as typical of our Christian 
Journey through the ivorld^ to our heanjenly Canaan, 



I 



I. 

N all our wanderings here below 

We see Thee, Lord, where'er we go ; 



2 As Elijah was at Christ's Transfiguration, Matt. xvii. 3. 

3 Tunes : Troyte, Monk 170 5 Eternity, S. P. C. K. 57. 
No. 51, and also No. 69^ referring to Elijah, may be used 

to-day. 



I/O Ninth Sunday after Trinity. 

From smitten Rock when waters flow, 

Then Jesus bleeds. 
Thy Word, and Paschal festival, 
Thy Church, — we see Thee in them all 
When showers of Manna round us fall. 

Then Jesus feeds. 



2. 

In all the gleams of grace divine 
AVe see Thy holy Presence shine ; 
Pillar of Light, and heavenly sign, 

There Jesus leads. 
Our arm could not from Eg}pt free ; 
In our own strength no hope we see ; 
We lean not on ourselves, for we 

Are broken reeds. 



In all our long and weary way, 

Pilgrims of Canaan, lest we stray. 

Be Thou our Guide, be Thou our Stay 

In all our needs. 
Speed us, O speed us onward, Lord, 
Supplies of heavenly grace afford. 
And make us Thme in will and word. 

And holy deeds. 



Tenth Sunday after Trinity, 

4- 

So may we through Life's Desert go, 
And come where fruits of Eshcol grow, 
And cr}'stal waters ever flow 

In verdant meads ; 
And there to Father, and to Son 
And Holy Ghost, blest Three in One, 
Sing ever praise, from Whom alone 

All good proceeds. 

Amen. 



Hymn 71. 

TENrH SUNDAY AFTER TRINrTT K 

** And luhen He ivas come near He beheld the City, and ivept cmer 
it.^^ Christ iveeping onjer Jerusalem, in the Gospel of the Week. 



WHEN David and his faithful friends 
O'er Olivet did go, 
Thrust forth from Sion by his son, 
Their tears began to flow^ ^ 



* Tunes: Tarrant, Manual p. 84, Chope 21 ; Old Martyrs, 
Monk 218, Mercer 281, S. P. C. K. 23. 

5 2 Sam. XV. 30. 



1/2 Tenth Sunday 

2. 

When scorn'd by Sion, David's Son 

Look'd down from Olivet, 
The countenance of Christ was sad, 

His eyes with tears were wet. 

3- 
While in the sun her Temple shines 

With marble and with gold ; 
Christ weeps for her ; His prescient Eyes 

Her future doom behold. 

4- 

Soon at the foot of Olivet, 

In dark Gethsemane, 
Thou, Lord, wilt weep with tears of blood, 

In bitter Agony. 

And, further west, another Hill 

Has tears m store for Thee ; 
Thy Brow, Thy Hands, Thy Feet, Thy Side, 

Will weep on Calvaiy. 

6. 

O precious Tears, most precious Blood, 

More costly than the dew 
That falls on Hermon's Hill, and rains 

That Carmel's flowers renew. 



after Trinity. 173 

7- 
For from those Tears and precious Blood, 

As from prolific showers, 
A blessed Garden soon will bloom 

Of heavenly Passion-flowers. 



Thou, Lord, wilt rise from Calvary, 

And through Gethsemane 
P'rom Sion pass to Olivet, 

For glorious victory. 

9- 

And then another Sion's gates. 
Will Thee, O Lord, enfold, 

Thy heavenly Sion, ever bright 
With precious stones and gold. 

10. 

Thou wilt ascend from Olivet 

In might and majesty, 
And open wide those Heavenly gates 

To all that follow Thee. 

II. 

And there Thou w]\.t for ever reign 

A Conqueror and King ; 
That Victory was won by pain. 

That Realm by suffering. 



174 Eleventh Sunday 

12. 

O weep with Christ on Olivet, 
That ye with Christ may rise ; 

Ye sow in tears, to reap with Him 
A Harvest in the skies. 

13. 
Glory to Father, and to Son, 
For by His Death we live ; 
And glory to the Holy Ghost, 
Eternal Glory, give. 

Amen. 



Hymn 72. 

eleventh sunday after trinity^. 

Dwine Grace ginjeuy not to supersede human labour^ but In order to 
quicken it, and that ive plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good 
'Works, may receinje from God a plenteous regard: a doctrine in- 
culcated in the Collect for the Day, and in St. PauPs ivords in 
the Epistle for the Week. 



L 



I. 

ORD, for Thy Grace's showers 
We pray to Thee ; 



^ Tune : see Appendix, p. 5. 

The Hymn for the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity may 
be used on this day. The latter part of the Hymn for Tuesday 



after Tj'lnity, 175 

Not that our path ^^ith flowers 

Bestrewn may be ; 
Not, that our brows with roses 

We may entwine 
Before their blossom closes, 

And drink sweet wine ^ 



But, that like Trees fruit-laden 

We may rejoice ; 
And old men, young, and maiden 

i\Iay hear Thy voice, 
" Come, and your Harvest gather, 

Your ripe fields reap, 
And with your heavenly Father 

Hanxst-Home keep." 



in Whitsun week may also be used on this day. " Not Abanas, 
or Pharpars, Lord," &c., in reference to the History of Xaaman 
in the First Lesson of this Morning. Also the Hymns for 
Easter may be used with reference to the account of Christ's 
Resurrection in the Epistle of this Week. Also part of the 
Hymn for Ash- Wednesday, with reference to the Parable of 
the Pharisee and Publican in the Gospel. 

This Hymn may also be used at a Harvest Thanksgiving 
Service. 

7 Wisdom ii. 7, 8. 



17^ Twelfth Sicnday 

3- 
For not, that ye like flowers 

May be, or leaves. 
Sends He His heavenly showers ; 

But for ripe sheaves. 
To you His grace is given 

Plenteous and free, 
That ye, like com, in heaven 

Garner d may be. 

Amen. 



Hymn 73. 

rwelfth sunday after trinitt «. 

The Epistle for the Week compares the glory of the Mosaic Law 
ivith that of the Gospel^ and contrasts the condition of the Israelites 
at the Deli'very of the Laiv, ivith the pri'vileges of those ivho 
linje under the Gospel ; and suggests their consequent duties. 



MOSES from Sinai brings the Law, 
His face with glory gleams ; 
The People's eyes, bedimm'd by sin, 
Are dazzled by its beams. 

8 Tunes : Tallis^ Mercer 305, Monk 62, S. P. C. K. 22 : 
Dundee, Monk 27. 

One of the Hymns for next Sunday, as bearing on the history 
of Sennacherib, may be used on the Evening of this Day. 



after Trinity. 



To shroud the Glon' of the Law, 
Shining with heavenly grace, 

And spare their feeble eyes, he puts 
A Veil upon his face. 

3. 
Beam with Thy Spirit on our hearts, 

Take off the Veil, that we 
May see the Glory of the Law, 

Jesu, reveal'd in Thee ! 

4- 
Light up its T\"pes and Prophecies, 

Its moral code unfold. 
That we may all their glimmerings 

Sunn'd forth in Thee behold. 

5- 

If, in the t^vilight dim, the Law 
Gleam' d with such lustre bright. 

How glorious is the noonday sun 
Of Evangelic Light ! 

6. 

If Thy bright beams on Moses' face 
Did with such splendour shine, 

How may we hope to gaze upon 
Thy countenance divine % 

N 



^// 



Twelfth Sunday after Trinity. 

7. 
Thou sayest, "without Hohness 

No eye shall look on Thee^" 
And " blessed are the pure in heart, 

For they God's face shall see \" 

8. 
O, therefore, cleanse our sullied hearts, 

Soften these hearts of stone. 
That we may see Thee, and may know 

As we, O Lord, are known ". 

9- 

To Father, Son, whose Gospel gilds 
The Law with glorious rays, 

And Holy Ghost Who in them shines, 
Be everlasting praise. 

Amen. 

9 Heb. xii. 14. ^ Matt. v. 8. 

2 I Cor. xiii. 12. 



Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity, 179 

Hymn 74. 

thirreenth sunday after trinitt 3. 

Chrht*s Icue to fallen Man, as seen in the Parable of the Good 
Samaritan in the Gospel of the Week ; and the Preparatory 
character of the Mosaic Laiv, as typified in that Gospel, and as 
declared in the Epistle of the Week. 

I. 

WHEN from the City of our God 
Man wander'd far away, 
He fell into the Tempter's hands, 
Was stripp'd, and wounded lay. 

2. 
The Priesthood and the Law came by, 

And Man's sore plight espied. 
They look'd upon our wounds, and then 

Pass'd on the other side. 

3. 
At length another Traveller came. 

Sent down from God to Man, 
One, Whom His own in bitter scorn 

Call'd a Samaritan ^ 

2 Tune: Old Winchester, Monk 44, Mercer 139, Manual 
p. 118, Crotch p. 27. 
See also the next Hymn. 

This Hymn may be also used at a Charitable Collection. 
* John viii. 48. 

N 2 



i8o Thirteenth Sunday 

4- 

He bound our wounds, and pour'd in oil 
And wine with tender care, 

And bore us to an Inn, — His Church, — 
And safely lodged us there. 

5- 
He gave us to the Host in charge, 

And, " at that future Day 
When I shall come again," He said, 

" I will thy pains repay." 

6. 
What beams of Grace and Mercy, Lord, 

In Thy Example shine ! 
O may we give Thee thanks and praise 

By showing love like Thine. 

7- 
So may we at that future Day 
With joy Thy Coming see, 
And hear that blessing, — "What ye did 
To Mine, ye did to Me'." 

Amen. 

* Matt. XXV. 40. 



after Trinity, i8i 

Hymn 75. 

another for the same sunday \ 

The History of Sennacherib, ^^^S ^f -^^^y^^^i ^^ recorded in the 
First Lesson of last Sunday E'vening, and in the First Lesson of 
this Morning. 

I. 

OKIXG of Kings, we Thee adore, 
Thee, Lord, and Thee alone ; 
The Earth, O God, Thy footstool is, 
The heaven of heavens Thy Throne. 

2. 
O Lord, Thou dost permit the proud 

To work Thy will divine ] 
Sennacheribs Thy scourges are ; 

They are " a sword of Thine ^" 



Full often. Lord, that sword of Thine 

Lays fenced cities waste ; 
And guilt}' Nations from their hand 

Thy cup of fury taste. 

6 Tunes : Glastonbury, Crotch p. 7 5 Old Martyrs, Monk 
218, Mercer 281, S. P. C. K. 23. 
^ Ps. xvii. 13. 



1 82 Thirtee7ith Su7iday after Trinity. 

The proud Avenger deems that he 

Has made their rivers dry, 
And Lebanons and Carmels spoil'd ; 

Blaspheming God most High. 

5- 
But when Thy Hezekiahs pray, 

And for Thy succour cry, 
Spreading the letters of the proud 

Before Thy righteous Eye ; 

6. 
Then, Lord, Thy breath consumes the host ; 

And in their idol's fane 
By sudden strokes from children's hands 

Sennacheribs are slain. 

7- 
O King of Kings, we Thee adore, 

Thee, Lord, and Thee alone ; 
The Earth, O God, Thy footstool is, 
The heaven of heavens Thy Throne. 

Amen. 



Fourteenth Su7iday after Trinity. 183 

Hymn 76. 

FOURrEENrn SUNDAY AFTER TRINirTK 

The thankful Samaritan^ and the unthankful nine lepers^ in the 
Gospel of the Week. 



" /^"^ O, show yourselves unto the Priests," 
\jj Christ to Ten Lepers said ; 
The Nine, who went, unthankful were, 
One, who turn'd back, obey'd. 

2. 
By turning back he gain'd from Christ 

A blessing for his soul ; 
" Arise, and go thy way in peace. 

Thy faith hath made thee whole." 

3- 
Lord, once afar remov'd from Thee 

The race of Adam stood, 
Tainted by Sin's foul Leprosy, 

A wretched brotherhood. 



^ Tunes : Durham^ Monk 51, Met. Tunes xlvii. 5 Bedford^ 
Monk 153, Mercer 331, S. P. C. K. 35. 



184 Fourtee7ith Sunday after Trinity. 

4. 

But Thou hast come from heaven to earth, 

O gracious, loving Lord ; 
And by Thy sanctifying blood 

We are to health restor d. 

5- 
Thy mercies on our weary souls 

Fall like refreshing dews, 
And ev'ry day and ev'ry hour 

Thy gifts of grace renews. 

6. 
We go unto the Priests, but first 

Our Great High Priest we praise ; 
Turn back to Christ ; for he who is 

Most thankful, best obeys. 

>- 
/• 

He who most thankful is to Christ, 

He best in Christ believes j 
And greater mercies. Lord, from Thee 

By Thankfulness receives. 

8. 
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 

One God and Persons Three, 
From whom all good comes down to men. 
Be praise eternally. 

Amen. 



Fiftee?ith Simday after Tmiify, 

Hymn 77. 

fifteenth sunday after trinity k 

" Consider the Lilies of the Field. ""^ Gospel of the Week. 



THE Lilies in the field that grow, 
Cloth'd by God's goodness shine, 
And preach to all " O cast your care 
On love and power divine." 



The Lilies in the field that grow. 

Or glisten in the glade, 
May teach how soon Life's flowers are blown. 

And then how soon they fade. 

The Lihes, that in winter die, 

And in sweet spring-tide bloom. 
May teach how Christian Flowers of Faith 

Will blossom from the Tomb. 



9 Tunes: Old ^\th^ Monk 167, Mercer 3625 Abridge^ 
Mercer 257, S. P. C. K. 38, Manual p. 64, Crotch p. 23. 



1 86 I'ifteenth Sunday after T7'inity. 



The Christian soul, that shines in peace 
Mid cold neglects and scorns, 

Gleams in the shade with silver light 
"A Lily among thorns \" 

The Vine, whose branches, fed by sap, 

Ripe golden clusters bear. 
May teach how joind to Christ by grace 

We live, and fruitful are. 



The Earth a holy Garden is, 

An Eden to the wise ; 
And there God with us walks, as once 

With man in Paradise. 



7. 
Each plant a story has of grace, 

A tale of love, to tell ; 
Each herb, to ears that listen, is 

A living Parable I 

^ Song of Solomon, ii. 2. ^ Matt. xxiv. 32. 



Sixteejith Simday after Trinity, 



The lowliest hedgerow flowers, when view'd 

By Faith, and cull'd by Love, 
May weave a garland for the saints 

In endless joys above. 

9- 

Praise to the Father and the Son, 

And to the Holy Ghost, 
From all things be in Earth and Sea, 

And from the heavenly Host. 

Amen. 



Hymn 78. 

sixteen'th sunday after trinitt^ 

The Raising of the Widcnvs Son at the Gate of Nam ^ in the Gospel 
of the Week. 

I. 

OSAA^IOUR, Who at Xain's Gate 
Didst dr}^ a Widow's tears, 
And raise her only son, the prop 
Of her declining years ; 

3 Tunes : Old 137?/^, Met. Tunes xxvi. j Dundee^ Monk 27, 
Chope 100. 



Sixteenth Sunday 



What joy was hers, when hfe returned 

Into that paUid face, 
When he sat up, and when her son 

The Mother did embrace ! 



And O, what holy raptures, Lord, 

Thy saints in heaven await. 
When they shall stand, uprais'd by Thee, 

At Thine own City's Gate ! 



Thy Nain, City of Delight ^ 
Shall Thy blest Presence see. 

Much People then will be with Christ, 
A glorious company. 

5- 

What ecstasies will then be theirs 

In that blest City, Lord, 
When Sons to Parents will by Thee 

For ever be restor'd ! 



Nam means Delight. 



after Trinity. 189 

6. 
O grant us so together, Lord, 

To live in holy love, 
That we together may be join'd 

In holy bliss above. » 

7- 
Members of Christ our bodies are '% 

The Holy Spirit's shrine ^ ; 
O grant us so to use them now, 

That they may be like Thine ! 



To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 

Let every creature bow ; 
The Resurrection, and the Life, 

O mighty Lord, art Thou ! 

Amen. 



^ I Cor. vi. 15. 

^ I Cor. iii. 16. 2 Cor. vi. 16. 



ipo Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity, 

J 
I 

Hymn 79. i 

SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY ^ 

TJie Chrhtian Church, its unity in Faith, Hope, and Charity, as ^ 
declared in the Epistle for the Week. j 

I. I 

THOU hast a Temple founded, 
Thy Church on Thee the Rock ; 
By Faith securely grounded, 

She stands the tempest's shock; 
Her stones are all united 

By the cement of Love \ 
Her spire of Hope is lighted 
By sunbeams from above. 

2. 
The Cross is on her portal 

Which, with Thy blood ^ baptiz'd, 
Invites to joys immortal 

The World evangeliz'd ; 
Thy Grace is ever flowing 

Throughout that Temple bright, 
A Temple ever growing 

In heavenly life and light. 

^ Tunes : Konigshurg, Mercer 5 j Crilger, Monk 66. 

^ As the door-posts of the Israelites, sprinkled by the blood 
of the Lamb, secured those within them, so the Church offers 
salvation to all through the Blood of Christ, the Lamb of God. 



Eightee?ith Sunday after Trinity. 191 

3. 

Lord, make us by Thy merit 

There hvely stones to be ; 
Compacted by Thy Spirit 

In bands of unit}' ; 
Jewels ^ to deck for ever 

The mural diadem, 
Which crowns the cr}-stal river ^ 

Of New Jerusalem. 

A:\rEX. 



Hymn 80. 

eighteenth sunday after trinitt^. 

Love to God) and lon;e to Man in God, as taught in the Gospel of 
the Week, 

I. 

AS some fair River, from pure fount, 
"Which parts itself in t^vain, 
With han'ests cro^^ms the water" d vale, 
And gilds the fruitful plain ; 

^ Rev. xxi. 19. ^ Rev. xxii. i. 

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30, Crotch p. 13 5 C. M., Met. Tunes xxiv. 



ig2 Eighteenth Sunday after Tri7iify. 

2. 

i So heavenly Love, in twofold stream 

I Gushes from source divine ; 

And fruits of HoHness and Peace 

On its bright margin shine. 

i 

! 3. 

I Since Thou, O Lord, our Father art, 

; And we Thy offspring are, 

I We love the creatures formed by Thee, 

I And tended by Thy care. 

i ^• 

\ ^ Where'er we go, where'er we look, 

Wherever Man we see, 

There an immortal soul we view 

Made and redeem'd by Thee. 

5- 
With divers tongues, and differing names 

Men may each other call. 
Barbarian, Scythian, Bond, and Free ; 

But Christ is all in all I 

6. 
Thou, God in Man, Em.manuel, 

Dost all in Thee combine ; 
The African our Brother is, 

Since Thou hast made him Thine. 

3 CoL iii. II. 



Nineteenth Sunday after Tiinity, 193 

7- 
One Earthj one Sky, one Sun, one Sea, 

One Baptism for all. 
One Bible, and one Cup and Bread, 

In Thy Love's Festival. 



O may we in one heavenly Home, 
All with one heart and voice 

Praising One Father and One God, 
Eternally rejoice. 

Am EX. 



Hymn 81. 

nineteenth sul\'d^r after trinittk 

JVorship, ri'A to he gin; en to ivhat is fake ,• and nt'ver to he ^withheld 
from the True God: as declared, respectinjely, in the First Les- 
sons, from the Book of Daniel, in the Morning and ETjening of 
this Day. 

I. 

LORD, may we never, save to One, 
In worship bow the knee j 
And may we never. Lord, forego 

The Worship due to Thee. 

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p. 5. 

O 



194 Nimteeiith Suitday 

2. 

Though Mammon should our hearts allure, 

Or Glory with her guiles, 
Or Pleasure should our homage claim, 

With fascinating smiles ; 

3- 
Though friends should scoff with withering 
scorn, 
And bitter mockery, 
And Faith, and Holiness, and Love, 
Reviled and martyr' d be ; 

4. 

Though Satan, with his gilded pomps. 

Be by the World ador'd. 
And flaming furnaces await 

The servants of the Lord ; 

And though he rage, with furious ire. 

On those who Thee obey, 
And cast Thy Daniels into dens 

Of Lions, as a prey ; 

6. 

Yet never may we, save to One, 

In worship bow the knee j 
And never may we. Lord, forego 

The Worship due to Thee ! 



after Truiity. 195 

7- 
Give us the iVlartvTs faith and strength. 

And courage from above, 
To worship Thee, and Thee alone, 

With holy zeal and love. 



At morn, at noon, and eventide, 

When Faith uplifts her eye 
To Thy Jerusalem above ^, 

O hear our suppliant cry. 

9- 

So may we ne'er in lake of fire. 

The den of Satan, be ; 
But ever with Thy Saints above 

In glor)^ worship Thee. 

10. 

To Father and to Son of God, 
Who with the children three ^ 

Walk'd in the flames, and Holy Ghost, 
Eternal glory be. 

Amen. 

^ Dan. vi. 10. His windows being open in his chamber 
toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, 
and prayed. 

6 Dan. iii. 25. 

O 2 



1^6 Twentieth Sunday 

Hymn 82. 

rWENriETH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITT 7. 

*' Redeeming the time " — or, a^ the original literally signifies^ 
^' Ransoming for yourselnjes the opportunity'''* {ivhich is regarded 
as a capti'ue sold under bondage,) — ^^ for the days are evil.'''' 
See the Epistle of the Week. 

I. 

THOUGH days are evil, and as slaves 
Sold under bondage be, 
Yet can they be redeem'd and freed 
By Faith, O Lord, in Thee. 

2. 

The Thorn ^ of Thine Apostle was 

By Grace transfigured, 
And blossom'd as a roseate wreath, 

A garland for his head. 

3. 

The soldier's Armour, who with chains 

Did that Apostle bind, 
Supplied a text, on which he preached 

A sermon to mankind ^. 

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Salisbury, Met. Tunes iv. 

^ The thorn in the flesh of St. Paul j see 2 Cor. xii. 7 — 9. 

9 See the Epistle for next Sunday, the 21st after Trinity, 
Eph. vi. 13 — 17, written by St. Paul when he was a prisoner 
at Rome, chained to a Roman soldier. 



after Tiinity. 197 

4- 

The soldier's Breastplate, and his Shield, 

The Helmet, and the Sword, 
Were consecrated by St. Paul 

As armour of the Lord. 

J* 
The Cross of shame a Banner is 

Triumphantly unfurl' d ; 
Since Christ, by dying on the Cross, 

From death has sav'd the world. 

6. 
The hour of peril is to Faith 

A season opportune ; 
And darkest midnight is to Love 

A bright and glorious noon. 

7- 
Therefore to Father and to Son^ 

And, Lloly Ghost, to Thee, 
Our Helper to redeem the time, 
Be praise eternally. 

Amen. 



198 Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity, 

Hymn 83. 

TWENrr-FiRsr sundat after TRimrr \ 

The Nobleman [or Royal Courtier of Herod Antipas of Galilee) 
ivh'jse son 'was sick at Capernaum ,* see the Gospel for the Week, 

I. 

PRAIS'D be Thy Holy Name, O God, 
In all our sufferings ; 
Behold ! the sickness of a son 
To Christ a father brings. 



The Nobleman of Herod's court 

Is disciplin'd by grief ; 
He comes from Herod's court to Christ, 

And humbly seeks relief. 

3. 

Christ sees thy son, is near his bed^ 

Christ reads thy heart and his \ 
Then ask not Him to come with thee^, 

Who Omnipresent is. 

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29. 



Tiueiity -second Sunday after Trinity. 199 

4- 
^' Go, — thy son lives." Believe in Christ ) 

In Him the Godhead see ; 
And bless' d with die Centurion ^ 

The Nobleman will be. 

5- 

The Father, and the Holy Ghost, 

And Thou, O mighty Lord, 
Eternal Sire's Eternal Son 

Be evermore adofd. 

Amen. 



Hyivix 84. 

rjvENrr-SEcoND sundat after trinittk 

Prayer for Di--vine Wisdom, as described in the First Lessons of this 
and the folloiving Sunday , in the Book of Pro-verbs. 

I. 

LORD, not for store of worldly wealth, 
Xor worldly fame, we pray ] 
Nor worldlv iovs, which bri^htlv bloom, 
And quickly fade away. 

2 Matt. viii. 9, 10. Luke vii. 9. See above, Hymn 19. 

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Monk 40. 



200 Twenty -second Sunday after Trinity, 

2. 

Better than Gold Thy Wisdom is ; 

No rubies are so bright ; 
A never-setting Star it guides 

With everlasting light. 

3- 
Not to the World, nor to ourselves, 

But to Thy holy Eyes 
We look ; O give us godly fear, 

O make us meekly wise. 

4- 
True Wisdom, while it gives, receives ; 

By scattering gets increase ; 
And all her ways are pleasantness, 

And all her paths are peace. 

5- 
Honour and wealth are in her hand ; 

True glory she bestows ; 
A holy stream of life and joy 

From her pure well-spring flows. 

6. 
Praise be to God, the Only Wise ; 

The Father, and the Son ; 
And Holy Spirit, ever bless' d, 
Eternal Three in One. 

Amen. 



( 



Twenty-thb^d Sunday after Trinity. 201 

Hymn 85. 

rjVENrr-rHiRD Sunday AFrER trinitt^. 

'* Render unto Co'sar the things that are C^sar^s, and unto God the 
things that are GocCs,'''' The Gospel of the Week. 



SHALL we, — the liegemen of the Lord,- 
Tribute to Caesar pay, 
Who holds Jehovah's favour'd race 
Beneath his heathen sway % 



Yes : Caesar's coin is in your hands ; 

His sceptre is the rod 
WTiich punishes Judea's sins 

Against Judea's God. 

And Man, O Lord, Thine image is, 
Stamp'd in Thy Mint Divine j 

O grant us Grace to give to Thee 
The Coinage that is Thine. 



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202 Twe?ity-third Sunday after Trinity, 

4- 

Let it not be defaced by sin, 

Sullied by stains of lust, 
Marr'd, dimm'd, and eaten by the world's 

Spirit-corroding rust. 

5- 
Renew Thine image in our hearts, 

Cleanse them with grace divine. 
That Thine own superscription there 

And effigy may shine. 

6. 
So, when our bodies from the dust 

Thou, Mighty Lord, shalt raise. 
We in Thine image then may shine ^, 

And give Thee endless praise ; 

7- 
Thou, Word Incarnate, Who in us 

God's image hast restor'd, 
With Father, and the Holy Ghost, 
Be evermore ador'd. 

Amen. 

5 Phil. iii. 21, the Epistle for the Week. 



Twenty-fomih Sunday after Trinity, 203 
Hymn 86. 

rTVENrr-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINrTT^. 

The Crcnvd thronging Christ contrasted ivith the faithful Woman ^ 
ivho alone touched Him ; see the Gospel of the Week, compared 
with Mark v. 30, 31 j Luke viii. 45, 46. 



THE Crowd throng' d Christ with pressure 
rude ; 
Their touch He did diso^\ni ; 
But one who touch' d His garment's hem, 
She touch' d, and she alone. 

2. 
She touched by Faith ; His Power Di\ine 

Responds to her appeal ; 
And gushing from His Godhead's love 

Virtue goes forth to heal. 

3. 

Lord, may we never ^ith the Crowd 

On Thee profanely press, 
With free, familiar look and speech. 

And confident address. 

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204 Twenly-foip t/i Sunday after Trifiity, 

4. 

Thee, in Thy holy Sacraments, 

Thee, Lord, in fervent Prayer, 
Thee in Thy Scriptures may we touch 

By Faith, and find Thee there. 

5- 
O may we touch with reverent awe 

Of body and of soul, 
So may pure emanations stream 

From Thee, and make us whole ! 

6. 
Praise Him Who cleans'd us with His Blood, 

The Everlasting Son, 
The Father praise, and Holy Ghost, 
Praise the blest Three in One. 

Amen. 



Twenty -fifth Sunday afiter Trinity. 205 
Hymn 87. 

rWENTT-FIFrH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITr, being the 
SUNDAY next before ADVENT K 

^^ The Lord our Righteousness;*' Jerem. xxiii. 6. See the 
Epistle of the Week. 



WE all, O God, unrighteous are ; 
With sorrow we confess 
Our great and grievous sins to Thee, 
The Lord our Righteousness. 

2. 
Not to Thine Angels, nor to Saints 

Do we our prayer address ; 
We fly to Thee, and only Thee, 

The Lord our Righteousness. 

3- 
Thou, Christ, the Great Jehovah art, 

The Fount of Holiness ; 
And, " God with us," Thou art become 

The Lord our Righteousness. 

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Chope 69. 

The Hymn, No. 24, for the Fourth Sunday in Lent may be 
used on this Day, in reference to the Gospel of the Week. 

Also, the Hymns for Septuagesima and Sexagesima, Nos. 25, 
26, in reference to the Collect of the Week , and No. 72, for 
the Eleventh Sunday after Trinit\'. 



2o6 Twenty -fifth Sunday 

A- 
Wash'd are we with Thy precious blood, 

Cloth'd with Thy spotless dress ; 
O may we ever dwell in Thee, 

The Lord our Righteousness. 

5- 
Make us to be in ver}^ deed 

What we in word profess ; 
O make us like unto Thyself, 

The Lord our Righteousness. 

6. 
Pour on us plenteous showers of grace, 

Increase our fruitfulness, 
That we may yield Thine o^^TL to Thee, 

The Lord our Righteousness. 

7. 
So, in Thy glorious image rais'd 

May we Thy mercy bless ; 
And sing for ever praise to Thee, 
The Lord our Righteousness. 

Amen. 



after Trinity. 20 / 



Part II. « 



The Preparation for Christ's Advent, a% described by the Prophet 
Jeremiah^ in the Scripture appointed for the Epistle^ *' Behold, 
the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David 
a righteous Branch," &c. Jerem. xxiii. 5 — 8. 



BEHOLD the Day, the glorious Day, 
When forth a Branch shall spring, 
A righteous Branch from David's stem, 
The Saviour, Judge, and King ! 



He comes I He comes ! Man, Very Man, 

From David's Stem a rod ; 
And He the root of David is ; 

The everlasting God ^ 

3- 

To join us in Himself to God, 
He comes, and makes us one \ 

Children of God that we may be 
In His Beloved Son. 



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9 " I am the Root and Offspring of David," says Christ (Rev. 
xxii. 16), Who is the Root^ as God, and the Offspring, as Man : 
see also His words, Matt. xxii. 42 — 45. 



20 8 Twei^y-fifth Sunday aft 67- Trinity, 

4- 
Therefore shall Israel's ancient days 

No more remember d be ; 
A better Exodus is ours, 

Who are from Satan free. 

5- 
O Son of God, led forth by Thee 

We to our Canaan come ; 
From every clime all Abraham's sons 

Find in Thy Church their home. 

6. 
All Nations in Thy Sion, Lord, 
To Thee their praise address, 
Christ, Very God and Very Man, 
The Lord our Righteousness. 

Amen. 



HOLYDAYS, 

&c. 



Hymn 88. 

ST. ^NDREJV'S DAT. NOV. 30'. j 

I. 

HOW fair and pleasant is the sight, 1 

When brethren's hearts agree, j 

In holy amity and love, I 

United, Lord, by Thee ! 



To-day their joys, like pure white flowers 

In spring reveal' d, appear, 
And deck, as with a snowdrop wreath. 

The Threshold of the Year. 



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24, Chope II. 

P 



210 Sf. Andrew s Day, 



The Threshold of Thy Holy Year 

Is garlanded by Love ; 
Which dwells in gardens of delight 

In Paradise above. 

4- 
Bright pattern of fraternal love 

To-day with joy we see, 
St. Andrew, who a brother brought, 

A Peter, Lord, to Thee. 

^• 
Brothers by nature and by grace, 

Christ lov'd them as His own ; 
Brothers united in the Cross '\ 

And brothers in the Crown. 

6. 

Like two fair rivers overhung 

By many a fruitful tree, 
They flow'd together, till they pass'd 

Into the crystal sea. 



2 St. Andrew and St. Peter both suffered Martyrdom by 
Crucifixion, 



St. Andrew s Day. 211 

7- 
They usher m Thine Advent ^, Lord, 

Which saved the World from Sin ; 
For he who would that Advent greet, 

Must first with Love bedn. 



And he who w^ould with holy joy 

Thy Second Advent hail, 
Must cherish in his heart that Love, 

Whose graces never fail. 

9- 

The Love which brings to Christ, is Love 

Which, fed by holy showers. 
Will ever brightly bloom in heaven 

With amaranthine flowers. 

lO. 

The Father and the Son we praise ; 

And Thee, O Holy Ghost ; 
Give us Thy Love, the best of Gifts 

That came at Pentecost. 

Amen. 

3 The First Sunday in Advent is always the nearest Sunday 
to the Festival of St. Andrew. 



Ember Days, being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday 
after Dec. 135 see Hymn 118. 

P 2 



214 


Conversion of St. Paul, 


Saul 


2. 

who the blood of Stephen shed, 


Is now by Thee a captive led ; 


Thy Glory blinds his dazzled eyes, 


And 


prostrate on the ground he lies. 


He, 


3. 

who Thy Flock did madly tear 



Like a fierce wolf ^, — now kneels in prayer ; 
He is baptized into Thy Death, 
Thou Crucified, of Nazareth ! 

4- 

He, who Thy Saints to prison hurl'd, 
Will now evangelize the World ; 
The persecuting Pharisee 
Will burn with fervent zeal for Thee. 

Forth will Thy valiant Soldier go, 
And storm the bulwarks of the Foe ; 
And plant Thy Cross upon the walls 
Of Satan's forts and arsenals. 



"* Gen. xlix. 27. It is well known that the early Fathers 
and Ancient Hymn- writers often adopt that expression of the 
Patriarch, and apply it to St. Paul. 



Convei'sion of St. Paul. 215 

6. 
He will to Jew and Gentile preach, 
By Life, by Writing, and by Speech ; 
In patient Wisdom following Thee ; 
And most of all, by Charity. 

7- 
He will in chains and perils be, 
Be \\Teck'd, be scourg'd, be ston d for Thee : 
For he has learnt to suffer loss 
Of all things gladly for the Cross I 



Blazon' d with golden beams, Thy Grace 
Shines in a halo o'er his face ; 
Nothing he is, but all things can ^ 
By help of Thee, Thou God in ^lan ! 

9- 

From east to west, from north to south, 
He bears Thy message in his mouth ; 
x\nd flying upon Eagle's ^^-ings 
To all the glorious Gospel brings. 



s piiii^ iii_ g. cp. 2 Cor. xi. 23 — 30. 
I ^ Phil. iv. 13. 2 Cor. xii. 9. i Cor. xv. 10. The reader 

I will remember that the word Grace stands at the beginning 

and at the end of all St. Paul's Epistles. 



214 Conversion of St. Paid, 



Saul, who the blood of Stephen shed, 
Is now by Thee a captive led ; 
Thy Glory blinds his dazzled eyes, 
And prostrate on the ground he lies. 

He, who Thy Flock did madly tear 
Like a fierce wolf \ — now kneels in prayer ; 
He is baptized into Thy Death, 
Thou Crucified, of Nazareth ! 

4- 

He, who Thy Saints to prison hurFd, 
Will now evangelize the World ; 
The persecuting Pharisee 
Will burn with fervent zeal for Thee. 

Forth will Thy valiant Soldier go. 
And storm the bulwarks of the Foe ; 
And plant Thy Cross upon the walls 
Of Satan's forts and arsenals. 



7 Gen. xlix. 27. It is well known that the early Fathers 
and Ancient Hymn- writers often adopt that expression of the 
Patriarch, and apply it to St. Paul. 



Conversion of St. Paul. 215 

6. 

He will to Jew and Gentile preach, 
By Life, by ^^Titing, and by Speech ; 
In patient Wisdom following Thee ; 
And most of all, by Charity. 

7- 
He will in chains and perils be, 
Be wreck'd, be scourg'd, be ston'd for Thee ; 
For he has learnt to suffer loss 
Of all things gladly for the Cross ^ 

8. 

Blazon'd with golden beams. Thy Grace 
Shines in a halo o'er his face ; 
Nothing he is, but all things can ^ 
By help of Thee, Thou God in Man ! 

9- 

From east to west, from north to south, 
He bears Thy message in his mouth ; 
And flying upon Eagle's wings 
To all the glorious Gospel brings. 



^ Phil. in. 8; cp. 2 Cor. xi. 23 — 30. 

° Phil. iv. 13. 2 Cor. xii. 9. i Cor. xv. 10. The reader 
will remember that the word Grace stands at the beginning 
and at the end of all St. Paul's Epistles. 



2i6 Conversion of St. Paul. 

lO. 

Like some strong Flood from mountain source, 

He streams and widens in his course ; 

And flows into a sea of bliss 

At Rome, the world's Metropolis. 



There Paul, a willing sacrifice, 
Dies and is borne to Paradise ; 
For Thee, a joyful victim, slain ; 
" To live was Christ, to die is Gain '." 

12. 

All Glory, Honour, Praise, to Thee 
For all Thy Grace's triumphs be ; 
O make us so to use that Grace, 
That we may ever see Thy Face. 

Amen. 

1 Phil. i. 21. 



The Presentation of Christ in the Temple, 217 

Hymn 91. 

the presentation of christ in the temple, 
commonly called the purification of st 
mart the virgin. feb. 22. 

I. 

O JERUSALEM beloved, joyful mom has 
dawn'd to Thee ; 
Sing with joy and exultation, sing a song of Ju- 
bilee ] 
For the Lord ^, whom thou art seeking, He for 

whom the Nations pray, 
He, in human flesh appearing, to His Temple 
comes to-day. 



Glorious and bright the Temple with its gold and 
silver shone. 

Which l3y royal hands was builded of the peace- 
ful Solomon ; 

But thy latter House ^ is brighter, for in it a hea- 
venly Guest, 

Son of David, Everlasting Prince of Peace is 
manifest. 

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2 Mai. iii. i , the Epistle of the Day. 
* Haggai ii. 3. 7. 9. 



2 18 The Frese?itation of Christ hi the Temple. 

3. 

He the First-begotten Only Son of God to-day is 

come, 
He the First-begotten Only Son of holy Mary's 

womb ; 
All the faithful sons of Israel are in Him to God 

allied, 
And presented in the Temple of the Lord are 

sanctified. 

4- 

He shall purify the sons of Levi, and to God 
shall bring 

Incense pure of adoration, and a spotless offer- 
ing ; 

Now the offerings of Judah shall through Him 
accepted be ^, 

For the true Propitiation for the sins of all is He. 

5- 
Light the Gentile w^orld to lighten, and thy glory, 

Israel, 
Beams in Him the heavenly Dayspring, God 

with us, Emmanuel ; 
Now the aged World receives Him in its arms 

with faith's embrace, 
And with Symeon rejoices in the sunshine of His 

grace. 

^ Mai. iii. 3, 4, the Epistle of the Day. 



Sf. Afatthias' Day. 219 

6. 

May we, Lord, with holy Symeon, and with 

Anna, wait for Thee 
In the visions of Thy Temple ; May our hearts 

Thy Temples be ; 
So, with Saints and holy Angels may we all for 

evermore. 
In Jerusalem the heavenly, Thee the Lord of all 

adore. 

Amen. 



Hymn 92. 

^r. MATTHIAS' DAT, FEB, 24 K 



NO longer Thou in human form 
Art present to the eye ; 
But thron'd above the Cherubim 
Thou reignest in the sky. 



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220 S^. Matthias' Day, 



And Thou, O Christ, dost all things see, 

Sitting in glory there ; 
And hearest with a ready ear 

The voice of fervent prayer. 



3. 

To-day Thy Church appeals to Thee, — 
" Show whether of the twain ^ 

To fill the place, which Judas lost. 
Thou, Jesu, wilt ordain." 



4- 

Her prayer was heard ; to show Thy Will 

That trial then sufficed ; 
The lot that on Matthias fell 

Dropp'd from the hand of Christ. 

5- 

The Scripture saith, that " with the Eleven ^ 

Matthias, from that hour, 
Was number'd," equal to the rest 

In Apostolic Power. 

'^ Acts i. 24. s Acts i. 26. 



Sf. Matthias' Day. 221 

6. 
Since they are Twelve, one of the Twelve 

Supreme we may not call ; 
Their Master, Christ, assigns the same 

Title and rank to all. 

7. 
Not less, when on His heavenly throne, 

Can Christ Apostles make, 
Than when He walk'd on earth, beside 

The Galilean Lake. 

8. 
Lots now have ceased ; the Comforter 

To guide Thy Church is given ; 
And by Thy Spirit Thou dost call 

Thy Ministers from heaven. 

9- 

A golden Apostolic Chain, 

Lord, from Thy hand depends ; 

The electric fluid of Thy Grace 
By it from Thee descends. 

JO. 

Whatever Thy Ministers dispense 

Of heavenly Grace, is Thine ; 
O may they ever in Thy hand 

As Stars angelic shine I 

9 Rev. i. 20. 



222 The Anmuiciation 

II. 

To Father, Who did send the Son ; 

To Son, Who them does send ^ ; 
To Holy Ghost, Who aids the sent ; 

Be Glory without end. 

Amen. 



Hymn 93. 

'THE ANNUl^CIAriON OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN 
MART. MARCH 25 2. 



HOW blest the days that Angels see, 
And life they lead, from sorrow free ! 
While years and ages roll away, 
They are unconscious of decay. 

2. 
To-day the Seraph comes ; the same ^ 
Who once of old to Daniel came ; 
Five hundred years have pass'd, but he 
Shines in unalter'd purity. 



1 John XX. 21. " As My Father sent Me, so send I you." 

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^ The Angel Gabriel j see Dan. viii. 16 j ix. 21. 



of the Blessed Virgin Mai-y. 223 

3- 

To-day he comes from realms above, 
On a like em.bassy of love \ 
Tidings of joy has Gabriel, 
Tidings of Thee, Emmanuel. 

4- 

On wings of love he flew to earth, 
Bringing the Message of Thy Birth ; 
O wondrous love, since Angels see 
Man rais'd above themselves in Thee. 

5- 
God's palace and the cr}'stal sea 
He left for obscure Galilee, 
And came to low Gennesareth, 
And a poor home at Nazareth. 

6. 

" Hail ! highly favour' d, for of thee 
Conceir d and bom a Son shall be ; 
Jesus, the Lord, God ever blest, 
In human flesh made manifest." 

7- 

" Behold the handmaid of the Lord, 
Be it according to thy word,'' 
With faith and meek obedience said 
Mar}^, the highly favoured. 



2 24 -^^^ ^ ^^^^ unci at ion. 



Lord, may we serve, and gladly go 
From lofty hills to valleys low ; 
Stooping with Angels may we soar, 
And live Avith them for evermore. 

9- 

And may we love to wait for Thee 
In quiet, silent piety ; 
And may the Holy Spirit's breath 
Breathe on us in our Nazareth I 

10. 

The Eternal Word vouchsaf d to come 
And make a Virgin s womb His home ; 
And Thou hast said, that we may be 
Dear as a Mother, Lord, to Thee \ 

II. 

May we Thy living Word receive, 
Bring forth to life what we believe ; 
O come to us, and with us dwell '% 
And be our soul's Emmanuel. 



Matt. xii. 50. Mark iii. 35. Luke viii. 21. 
Eph. iii. 17. 



SL Mark's Day. 225 

12. 

Glad voices to the Father raise, 
Give to the Son eternal praise, 
And give, with all the Angelic host, 
Glory to God the Holy Ghost. 

Amen. 



Hymn 94. 

Sr. MARIOS DAT. APRIL 2? ^. 



THE virtues of Thy saints, O Lord, 
Thy power and glory prove ; 
T\iQ frailties also of the saints 
Are trophies of Thy love. 

2. 
Two Champions ^ of the Cross went forth ; 

The World did them revile ; 
And one ^5 who \\T.th them was^ did faint 

And falter for a while. 



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5 Abridge^ 


S. P. 


c. 


K. 


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Crotch 


P- 33j 


Mercer 


257. 












' St. 


Paul and St. 


Barnabas. 


Acts xiii. 2. 


5- 








8 St. 


Mark 


. ActJ 


xiii. 13. 


Cp. Acts XV 


38. 
Q 









226 St Mark's Day. 

3- 
A wise Apostle's ^ stern rebuke, 

A tender kinsman's ^ love, 
A Mother's prayers ^, a contrite heart, 

Brought pardon from above. 

4- 
Pardon and showers of grace they brought. 

And now the work is done, 
To Paul, Mark '^profitable" is^ 

Peter calls Mark " a son '." 

That branch, which once bore little fruit. 
Now prun'd by Thee has been \ 

It teems with sap, and on its boughs 
Are golden clusters seen ^ 

6. 
Once toss'd by winds ^ of doubt and fear, 

Vex'd by the tempest's strife, 
Mark now is anchor'd on the shore 

Of everlasting Life. 

» St. Paul, Acts XV. 38. 

* St. Barnabas. See Col. iv. 10. Cp. Acts xv. 39. 

2 The house of Mary the mother of Mark was the resort of 
many gathered together to pray. Acts xii. 12. 

3 2 Tim. iv. II. * I Pet. v. 13. 
^ John XV. 2, the Gospel of this Day. 

^ See Eph. iv. 14, the Epistle of this Day, and also the Col- 
lect for the Day. 



S^. Mark's Day. 227 

7- 
He who had fainted, now through grace 

Confirms the world's behef ; 
Once sick, a good Physician is, 

And gives to all relief. 



He, who once started from the course, 

Now bears Thy living Word, 
Yok'd ever in the fourfold car ^ 

Which carries Christ the Lord. 

9- 

Taught by St. Mark ^ the Morians' Land 

Now lifts her hands in prayer ; 
He bears Thy light to Egypt's gloom, 

And makes a Goshen there. 

10. 
He sheds the Spirit's sevenfold grace 

In Evangelic beams, 
Like sevenfold Nile, which cheers that land 

With fertilizing streams. 

7 The fourfold Gospel, borne by the four Living Creatures ; 
displayed by Ezekiel and St. John. See above, p. lo. 

^ St. Mark was Bishop of Alexandria in Egypt, and died 
there as a Martyr, and the celebrated Catechetical School which 
produced Clement, Origen, and other famous ancient Teachers 
of Christianity, bore his name. 

Q 2 



228 Sf. Mark's Day. 

II. 

Thy living streams on Afric's sands 

He pours, a holy flood ; 
And what the Evangelist had preach'd 

The Martyr seals with blood. 

12. 

Praise to the Holy Spirit's Love, 

For all the gifts of Grace, 
Which cheer the Saint and Martyr's heart, 

And speed them in the race. 

13- 

Take from us fear ; give power and love, 
Sound mind and constant soul, 

That we, O Lord, with them may run, 
With them may reach the goal. 

14. 

Praise to the Father, and the Son, 

Praise to the Holy Ghost, 
Who makes the Christian's life to be 

A Day of Pentecost. 

Amen. 



Sf. Philip and St. James' Day. 229 

Hymn 95. 

^r. PHILIP AND ST. JAMES' DAT. MAT i 9. 



BLEST be, O Lord, the grace of Love 
Shed on our hearts by Thee ; 
Which makes another's soul to us 
Dear as our o^\ti to be. 



2. 

" Follow thou Me V' the heavenly Guide 

Jesus to Philip said j 
He follow' d Christ, and on the way 

To heav'n he others led. 



3- 

He led Nathanael ^ to the Lord, 

That guileless IsraeUte, 
Whose heart beneath the fig-tree shade '' 

Lay open to Thy sight. 



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Manual p. 47 5 St. Fulbert, Monk io6. 

^ John i. 43. 2 John i. 45. 

3 John i. 48. 



230 St Philip and St. James' Day. 

4- 
The heart that loves and leads to Thee, 

Is nurtur'd by Thy grace ; 
And in the Apostolic Band 

Now Philip finds a place. 

5- 
The Gentile ^ world invokes his aid ; 

Pledge in his love they see, 
That he, who led the Israehte, 

Will lead the Greek to Thee. 

6. 

So Love abounds, and gains fresh grace 

By its own overflow ; 
Thou dost on souls which loving are 

Exhaustless streams bestow. 

7- 
To-day with Thine own brother '% Lord, 

Philip is link'd in love ; 
A brother to that brother join'd 

By graces firom above. 



* John xii. 20, 21. 

^ St. James, "the Lord's brother," see Gal. i. 195 Matt. 
xiii. 55 j Mark vi. 3. 



Sf. Barnabas the Apostle, 23 1 



Not by the ties of flesh and blood 
Thy kinsmen, Lord, are we ; 

But fellowship in holy Love 
Is Brotherhood to Thee ^ 

9- 
O bring us to that holy place, 
That heavenly home above, 
Where brethen shall as Angels be. 
And every word be love. 

Amen. 



Hymn 96. 

ST:. BARNABAS THE APOSTLE. JUNE 11 7. 

I. 

BURIED in heathen darkness lay 
The World, as in a tomb ; 
How glorious is the Gospel Light 
Which has dispell'd the gloom ! 



6 See Matt. xii. 48 — 50. 

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232 St Barnabas the Apostle. 

2. 
The men of Lystra oxen brought ^, 

Victims with garlands crown'd ; 
The Priest prepar'd the sacrifice, 

With the flutes silver sound. 

3. 

" The Son of Consolation^" came 

To preach of Jesu's love ; 
But they would change the Preacher's name, 

And worship him as Jove \ 

4- 
Jove, son of Saturn ;— rebel son ^ ! 

How vast the distance was 
Between the heathen king of gods 

And holy Barnabas ! 

5- 
The one by cruelty defil'd, 

By envy, rage, and lust j 
The other full of heavenly gifts ^^ 

Meek, merciful, and just. 



^ Acts xlv. 13. 

9 St. Barnabas, Acts iv. '^^. ^ Acts xlv. 12. 

2 Jove, or Jupiter, rebelled against his father Saturnus, and 
dethroned him. 

2 Acts xi. 24, and compare the Collect of the Day. 



Sf. B amah as the Apostle. 233 

6. 

Nobler, far nobler, is the crown 

Of Thy least saint, O Lord, 
Than that of him whom Greece and Rome 

With thousand shrines ador'd. 

7- 
Lord, by Thy saints Thou hast the World 

From Satan's thraldom freed ; 
Victims no more with garlands crown' d 

Upon Jove's altar bleed 3 



But now Thy Grace on heathen Lands 

Celestial gifts bestows ; 
In fertilizing streams of life 

Thy Consolation flows. 

9- 

Thy sons of Consolation go 

With messages of love. 
And preach Thy Word, endued by Thee 

With graces from above j 

10. 

On Afric's gloom it gleams, Thy light 

The glad Pacific sees. 
And shines, bespangled as with stars, 

With Christian Cyclades. 



234 St. John Baptist's Day, 

IT. 

Daughters of Consolation too 
On loving errands haste ; 

And widows, orphans, sick and poor, 
Through them Thy comforts taste. 

12. 

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
One God, one only True, 

Glory and praise and blessing give, 
As is for ever due. 

Amen. 



Hymn 97. 

^t. john baptist's dat. june 24 k 

I. 

IN the wilderness prepare ye for the Lord 
a Way to go, 
Every valley shall be lifted, every hill shall be 

laid low ; 
Straight shall be the crooked places, and the 

rough be level made. 
And to all the world the Glorf of the Lord shall 
be display'd. 

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Chester, Mercer 313 j Austria, S. P. C. K. 108. 



St, John Baptist's Day. 235 

2. 
" Flesh is grass," the Voice is cmng ^, ^^ when 

the Lord sends forth His breath, 
As the flower of earth it fadeth, as the gi'ass it 

withereth ; 
But the Word of God endureth, and abideth 

evermore, 
And the Voice the Word ^ proclaimeth, See the 

Lord ! your God adore." 

3. 
In his mother's womb exulting did the Voice 

salute the Word \ 
In the wilderness the Servant gladly did proclaim 

the Lord ^ 
When the Spirit came upon Him lav'd with the 

Baptismal Ipnph ; 
**He the Bridegroom is from heaven, I from 

earth the paranymph ^" 

4. 
He the King, and I the Herald, sent His Coming 

to prepare \ 
He the Shepherd, feeding, tending sheep and 

lambs ^nth tender care ^ : 

^ Isa. xl. 6 — 10. The Epistle of the Day. ^ John i. 23. 
"' Luke i. 41 — 44. The Word, i.e. Christ, John i. i. 
s Matt. iii. 11. The Second Lesson for the Day. Mark 
i. 7. Luke iii. 16. 
^ John iii. 29 — 31. 
1 Isa. xl. II. The Epistle for the Day. 



236 Sf. John Baptist's Day, 

He must increase, I must decrease ; Morning- 
stars must fade away 

When the glorious Sun appearing pours on all a 
flood of Day. 

John the Baptist, our EHas, preach'd Thee in his 

Mother's womb. 
In the desert, in the palace, in the dungeon's 

narrow room. 
Sending then his two disciples ^ to behold Thy 

mighty deeds, 
That they might not ever falter in the faith as 

quiv'ring reeds. 

6. 
Thus St. John his witness ended, emptying him- 
self in Thee, 
As the stars in day are emptied, as the rivers in 

the sea; 
And his light on earth was setting, that it might 

again arise, 
And may shine with Thee for ever. Lord, in 

Thine eternal skies. 

7- 

Greater than the holy prophets, for he did the 
Lord baptize \ 

Greater than the holy prophets, for he did evan- 
gelize ; 

2 Matt. xi. 2. Luke vil. 1 8 — 22. 



St, John Baptist's Day. 237 

Since so great was John the Baptist, who beheld 

Thy orient gleams, 
O how blest are Nations walking in Thy full 

meridian beams ! 



Now by works of man's invention, Lord, Thou 
dost Thy way prepare, 

Where the valleys are uplifted, where the moun- 
tains levell'd are. 

Where the iron cars are rolling, where the tra- 
vers'd earth we see. 

In the wilderness of this world is a Way prepaf d 
for Thee. 

9- 

Haste, O hasten. Lord, Thy Coming 1 may Thy 
Everlasting Word 

Have free course among the Nations, and be 
glorified, O Lord : 

In each work of engineering, in each fresh up- 
turned sod 

May we hear the Voice, " Prepare ye, O prepare 
to meet your God !" 

10. 

In our hearts Thy Way preparing, may we, Lord, 

Thy grace obtain. 
Level hills, fill up the valleys, crooked straight, 
and rough make plain ; 



238 St, John Baptisfs Day. 

By Thy Spirit pioneering there a sacred Way for 

Thee, 
That Thou there mayst march in triumph on 

Thy road of Victory. 

II. 

Glory be to God the Father, and to God the Son 

be praise, 
Who the high and proud abaseth, and the lowly 

doth upraise ; 
Glory to the Holy Spirit, with the Father and 

the Son ; 
Glory to One God for ever ; and to Persons 

Three in One. 

Amex. 



aS/. Peter s Day, i^g 

Hymn 98. 

ST. PETER'S DAT. JUNE 29 s. 



CEPHAS and Peter "—heaven-taught 
name ^ 
By which the Jew and Greek did own 
That he who bare it was indeed, 
Lord, in Thy Church a finii-set stone ; 
For he from Christ, the Rock, was made, 
And he on Christ, the Rock, was laid. 



2. 

And whence his firmness ? From Thy grace 
When strengthen'd by the Holy Ghost, 
He who at Passover denied. 
Did boldly preach at Pentecost ; 
He, who before with fear did shake, 
Now gladly suffers for Thy sake. 



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Chope 13 ; AngeVs Song, S. P. C. K. 67. 

* John i. 42. Both words, signifying a stone, the one in 
Hebrew, the other in Greek. 



240 St. Peter's Day, 

3- 
" O wherefore didst thou doubt V Through fear 
Once sank he in the stormy sea ^ ; 
And when he trusted in himself, 
Then, Lord, he could not follow Thee ^; 
Now he is strong ; his Rock art Thou ; 
No winds or waves can move him now. 

4- 
Once, when of suffering Thou didst speak, 
" Be it far from Thee, Lord," he said ^ ; 
A stumbling-stone ^ he was to Thee, 
For he was feeble then through dread ; 
By suffering we reign with Thee ; 
T/iat was Thy path to Victor}^ 

5- 

Whoever builds upon himself, 
He builds his house upon the sand ; 
When rains descend, and deluge comes 
With boisterous winds, he cannot stand ; 
But he who builds on Thee, the Rock, 
He, only he, sustains the shock ^. 



5 Matt. xiv. 31. 

6 John xiii. 36, 37. 7 Matt. xvi. 22. 

^ Matt. xvi. 23. ^Kdi'^aXov, a stiimbUng-stone ^ a remark- 
able word, as connected with Peter's name. 
^ Matt. vii. 24, 25. 



St. Peters Day. 241 

6. 

Peter, a warder of Thy House, 
Stood at the gate, and bore the keys ', 
Keys of Thy Word and Sacraments ; 
To People, Priests, and Pharisees 
He did Thy heavenly message speak, 
Opening the door to Jew and Greek -. 

7- 
Now can and vrill he follow Thee, 
Thee, Whom he loves, the Shepherd good ; 
By feeding. Lord, Thy Sheep and Lambs ^ 
Which Thou hast purchas'd by Thy Blood ; 
Since on the Cross his Master died, 
Peter with joy is crucified. 



At Thy Transfiguration, Lord, 
He saw Thy beams of glory shine. 
And heard Thee speak of Thy decease \ 
By which that glor}^ would be Thine ; 
Nov/, Lord, Thy follower Thou dost own. 
He bore the Cross, he mns the Crown. 



1 Matt. xvi. 19. The Gospel of the Day. 

2 Acts ii. 14 — 37. Acts X. 34. The word Greek is here 
used for Gentile^ as commonly in the New Testament. 

2 John xxi. 15 — 17. ^ Luke ix. 31. 

R 



242 Sf. Peter's Day, 

9- 

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 

Eternal benediction be ; 

Three earthly witnesses beheld '% 

Jesus, Thy glorious majesty; 

And all Thy saints in bliss will see, 

And praise the Everlasting Three. 

Amen. 



Hymn 



99. 



ANOTHER HYMN for the SAME FESTIFALj from the 
Epistle of the Day ^. 



HOW blessed is the force of Prayer ! 
Eager for Peter's fate, 
Thy soldiers, Herod, bound him fast, 
And watch' d before the gate. 



^ Peter, James, and John, at the Transfiguration, Matt, 
xvii. I 5 2 Pet. i. 17, 18. 

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S. P. C. K. 37, Crotch p. 13, Handbook 16. 

This Hymn may also be used on Michaelmas Dayj Acts 
xii. I — 20, being the Second Lesson in the Morning of that 
day. 



Sf. Peter s Day, 243 

2. 

But Jesus has His soldiers too ; 

They also vigils keep ; 
They watch to prayer, while Peter rests 

In faith, compos'd in sleep. 

3. 
And Jesus other soldiers has ; 

Responsive to the call 
Of prayer his holy Angels come, 

Sent by the Lord of all. 

4- 
His Angels camp around the just, 

And spread their silver wings 
Above the heads of sleeping saints, 

With soft o'ershadowings. 

5- 
Prayer brouo;ht an Anorel down from heaven : 

Sentries and bars are vain ; 
With heavenly light the prison shines, 

Unlock'd is Peter's chain. 

6 
The iron portal open flew ; 

Peter to Mary goes, 
Whose household prayers brought down the help 

That sav'd him from his foes I 

^ Acts xii. 12. He came to the house of Mary, where 
many were gathered together praying. 
R 2 



244 '5'/. Peter s Day. 

7- 
And now at hand is Herod's doom ; 

In brilliant robes array d, 
And seated on his royal throne 

He an oration made. 

8. 
" A God, a God," the People cried. 

He gave not God the praise, 
An Angel smote him ; quench'd in gloom 

Is all that glory s blaze. 

9- 
O if we had the inner eye 

To see the hidden world. 
Banners of glory we should see 

Triumphantly unfurVd. 

10. 

Thy holy Angels we should see 

Emerging from the cloud. 
Saving Thy servants from the gulph, 

And hurling down the proud. 

II. 
Help us, O help us, Lord, to walk 

By faith and not by sight. 
That we may with Tlw Angels live 
In Thine Eternal light. 

Amen. 



Sf. James the Apostle, 245 

Hymn 100. 
st. james 'the apostle. july 25 s. 



TO-DAY, O Lord, the holy James, 
The son of Zebedee, 
First Apostolic ]\Iartyr, dies 
A Horious death for Thee. 



2. 

Thy promise is fulfilfd, that he 
Should in Thy footsteps go. 

Be with Thy Baptism baptiz'd. 
And drink Thy Cup of woe I 

.3. 

" Herod the king beheaded James, 
John's brother, with the sword :"' 

How brief and simple is that tale 
Told by Thy Holy AVord ' ! 



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9 Matt. XX. 23. The Gospel of the Day. 
1 Acts xii. I, 2. The Epistle for the Day. 



2^6 Sf. James the Apostle. 

4- 

Yet in that brief and simple tale 
Of the blest Martyrs death, 

There is the silent eloquence 
Of Inspiration's breath. 



The glory of the dying saints 

Not in broad rumour lies, 
But in God's knowledge ; and their death 

Is precious in His Eyes I 



He notes their sufferings in His Book, 

And to His mind recalls ; 
He counts their griefs, and puts their tears ^ 

In heavenly lacrymals. 



At the Great Day His Chronicle 

Of Saints will open'd be ; 
And men and Angels then will read 

Their Martyrology. 

2 Ps. cxvi. 15. 3 Ps. Ivi. 8. 



Sf. James the Apostle. 247 

8. 
God in His Word does not display 

Saints in their dying hours ; 
Teaching that by a saintly life 

The death of saints is ours. 

9- 
He is Thy Martyr, who with love 

Toils in a world of strife ; 
And noblest Martydom endures, 

The Martyrdom of life. 

10. 

Praise the Incarnate Word, from Whom 

All grace and glory^ flows, 
The King of Martyrs, Who by death 

Eternal life bestows. 

II. 

Teach us, O Lord, in life and death 

Ever to follow Thee, 
That with Thy Mart}TS we may praise 

The Everlasting Three. 

Amen. 



248 Sf. Bartholomew the Apostle. 

Hymn ioi. 

*sr. bartholomejv the apostle. aug. 24 ^ 



THE Tribes of Israel revered 
TAveh'e Patriarchal names, 
When God calFd Moses at the bush, 
Forth from the burning flames. 



Twelve bright clear AVells at Elim flowed 
Beneath the Palm-tree shade ^ ; 

Where, marching through the desert sand. 
They their encampment made. 

3. 
Twelve Standards ° stood around the Camp, 

And round the holy Tent, 
And when they mov'd, the Church of God 

Forth on her journey went. 



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Tunes vii. 

^ Exod. XV. 27. 

^ Three Standards on each side of the Tabernacle, Numb. ii. 
2 — 17. 



Sf. BartJioIomew the Apostle. 249 

4- 
Twelve Spies were sent by ]\Ioses forth, 

To search the Promised Land ; 
Twelve Stones at Joshua's word were rais'd 

From parted Jordan's sand. 

5- 
Twelve Loaves of holy Bread were plac'd 

Before the veiled Throne ; 
Twelve precious Gems of brilliant hue 

In Aaron's Breastplate shone. 

6. 
Twelve Oxen bore the molten sea, 

With outsvard-looking eyes \ 
Type of the Fount, with which the Twelve 

Would the whole World baptize. 

7- 
Twelve Thrones are promis'd to the Tv\'eh^e 

Who true to Christ remain ^, 
And will the Tribes of Israel judge, 

When Christ shall come again. 



'^ See I Kings vii. 24, 2552 Chron. iv. 2. The Laver, or 
Sea, was wrought about with lilies — emblems of Christian purity. 
^ Luke xxii. 28 — 30. The Gospel of the Day. 



250 St Baiiholomew the Apostle. 



Then why repine, though none can here 

On earth thy story tell, 
Bartholomew ? — whom also some 

Would call Nathanael \ 

9- 

What reck we ? — Down to hidden depths 

Man's wisdom cannot delve ; 
History enough it is, to be 

One of the chosen Twelve. 

10. 
^\Tiat boots the name by which the World 

The blest Apostle calls ] 
His name is graven evermore 

Upon the heavenly Walls ^ 

II. 

The blessed Saints receive from God 

A white and lucid stone, 
And a new name, which he who has. 

Knows it, and he alone ^. 

^ As some writers do: not so Augustine in Joann. Tract, 
vii. 

1 Rev. xxi. 14. "The wall of the City (the heavenly Jeru- 
salem) had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the 
Twelve Apostles of the Lamb." 

2 Rev. ii. 17. 



I 



St MaWieiu the Apostle and Evangelist. 251 

12. 
What matters it. though to our name 

Xo page on earth be given ? 
If only, Lord, Thy blessed hand 

Inscribe our name in Heaven I 

13. 
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 

Loud Hallelujahs sing ; 
^lay we ser^^e here, and reign above 
With our Eternal King. 

Amex. 



Hymn for Ember Days, being the Wednesday, Friday, and 
Saturday after September 145 see below, Hymn 118. 



Hymn- 102. 



6T. MArrHETV THE APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST. 
SEPT. 21 3. 



F 



I. 

OUR Rivers from one holy Fount arise. 
Forth from it liow, and water Paradise ^ : 



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Redhead, 625 Con^^ay, Handbook 56. 

* Gen. ii. 10 — 14. 



252 Si. Matthew 

Four Gospels, streaming from One Spirit's 

source, 
Make the Church bloom like Eden, in their 

course. 

2. 

Four Living Creatures, — wing entwin d in wing, — 
Bear on a Chariot Heaven's Eternal King ' ; 
Four Gospels — Four, yet woven as in one, — 
Bear Christ the Lord, as on a winged Throne. 

3. 
Beneath the Wings a Man's hand was dis- 

play'd ' ; 
God in the Gospels uses human aid ; 
Wings are above, the hand is underneath ; 
God moves the Writer with the Spirit's breath \ 



To-day, O Lord, Thy Love we celebrate 
To him, who at the seat of custom sate ; 
O boundless Love, O mighty Power of Christ ! 
A Publican, the first Evangelist ! 



^ Ezek. i. 5 — 25 5 and x. 14 — 21. 
^- Ezek. i. 8 5 and x. 8. 21. 
"' 2 Pet. i. 21. 



the Apostle and Evangelist. 2^3 

5- 
Despis'd of men, but chosen of the Lord, 
To preach and write Thy everlasting Word, 
He writes that Gospel mainly for the Jew 
Who scorn'd him most ; and proves that Thou 
art true. 

6. 
The Hebrew Law and Prophets here are seen 
Bearing their witness to the Nazarene ^ ; 
They to this seat of custom bring their fee, 
And gladly pay their tribute. Lord, to Thee. 

7- 
O wondrous, wondrous work of Grace Divine ! 
How bright its glories in this Gospel shine ! 
To Publicans, to love their foes, is given. 
They seek no treasure now, except in heaven. 



Lord, give us grace, with lifted hearts to rise 
To where Thou sittest, thron'd above the skies ; 
That we may rest, when Earth shall be no more, 
Sitting in peace upon the heavenly shore. 

Amen. 

^ In St. Matthew's Gospel, written principally for the Jews, 
and appealing to their Scriptures, as testifying of Christ. 



2 j4 'S^' Michael ajid All Angels. 

Hymn 103. 
^sr. michael and all angels. sept. 29 ' 



HOW dreadful is this place ! God's House 
It is, the Gate of Heaven ;" — 
The Patriarch said, to whom a view 
Of Angel Hosts was given \ 

2. 
Chariots of fire and horse of fire 

Around the holy Seer -, 
At Dothan, when the young man's eyes 

Illumin'd are, appear. 

3. 
And " Holy, Holy, Holy," cried 

The Seraphim who shone 
Reveal'd to rapt Isaiah's sight ^, 

Near the uplifted Throne. 



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S. P. C. K. 25 5 Sout/iiuell, Monk 180. 

The Second Hymn for St. Peter's Day, No. 99, above, may 
also be used on this Day. 

^ Gen. xxviii. 12 — 17. ^ Ehsha, 2 Kings vi. 17. 

3 Isa, vi. 1.4. 



i 



Sf. Michael and All Angels. 255 

4. 

Give us, O Lord, the eye of faith 

The inner world to see ; 
Then holy Angels we shall view 

And their blest ministr}\ 



5- 
Angelic voices we shall hear 

Join'd to our Jubilee 
In this Thy Church, and echoing 

Our Benedicite ^ 



Angehc faces we shall see, 
Angelic wings o'erspread 

Above Thy holy Altar, Lord, 
And Thee, the Living Bread. 



And we shall see in Angels' eyes 

Angelic joys exprest, 
When at the Font Thy little ones 

Are folded to Thy Breast. 



^ See I Cor. xi. loj on the presence of Angels in the public 
assemblies of the faithful. 



2j6 Sf. Alichad and All Angels, 



And we shall hear Angelic harps, 
And heavenly minstrelsy, 

When one repenting sinner turns 
With contrite heart to Thee '\ 



9- 

And when we see the deepening calm, 
And watch the quivering breath 

That trembles on the lips in prayer 
Of holy saints in death, 



Then Angel Ministers will be 

Unveiled to our eyes. 
Waiting to waft the faithful soul 

In peace to Paradise ^ 

II. 

Thus will our human life on earth 

A holy Bethel be. 
Where on a ladder we may mount 

With Ano-els unto Thee \ 



Luke XV. lo. ^ Luke xxiii. 43. 

7 Gen. xxviii. 12 — 17. 



Sf. Alichael a?id All A?igels. 

12. 

The Day will dawn, when we shall see 

The Angel Reapers come, 
To burn the tares, and celebrate 

Their heavenly Harv^est-home ^ 

13. 
O give us grace as Angels here 

To live in holy love ; 
That the last Trump may summon us 

To bliss with them above ^ 

14- 

Praise be to God ; to Father, Son, 

And to the Holy Ghost ; 
O may we praise Him evermore 

With the Angelic Host. 

Amen. 

^ Matt. xiii. 39. 49. ^ Luke xx. 36. 



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258 St. Luke the Evangelist, 

Hymn 104. 

^r. LUKE THE EVANGELIST. OCT. i8 K 

I. 

BELOV'D Physician I"— title true- 
Physician of the soul, 
Bringing the balm that Jesus gives 
To soothe and make us whole. 

2. 
A Victim ^ is the emblem, Lord, 

Of Thine Evangelist, 
Who in the clearest light displays 

The Sacrifice of Christ. 

3. 

Thy Sacrifice the Well-spring is, 

Whence living waters flow ; 
Only on Calvary's Tree the leaves 

That heal the nations grow ^ 

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2 Among the Living Creatures symbolizing the Evangelists 
in Ezekiel and in the Apocalypse the sacrificial animal, the Ox, 
is the emblem of St. Luke, as displaying in the clearest light in 
his Gospel the doctrine of the Atonement, and its blessed con- 
sequences to the world. 

^ Rev. xxii. 2. 



St. Luke the Evangelist. 259 

4- 
The wandering and wean* World 

With grief and pain distrest, 
Here may find peace, and may redine 

Its head on Jesus breast. 

5- 
Here in this Gospel's holy page *, 

We see all Adam's race 
Restof d to life and God in Thee, 

And made His sons by Grace. 

6. 
The Gentile World '% the younger son, 

Recovers heavenly bliss ; 
Is welconid to a Father s house, 

And by a Father's kiss. 

7- 
It comes to Christ ^, and bathes His feet 

With penitential tears, 
And kneeling there the gracious words 

Of peace and pardon hears. 



* In our Lord's genealogy, traced up to Adam by St. Luke, 
iii. 38. 

^ Luke XV. II — 32. The particulars specified in this and 
the following verses, are all peculiar to St. Luke's Gospel. 

^ Luke vii. 44 — 50. 

S 2 



26o SL Luke the Evaiigelist, 

8. 

Stripp'd in the road it lay, and scarr d 
By deadly wounds of Sin ; 

But Jesus pours in oil and wine, 
And brings it to the Inn '. 



9- 

And, Lord, how blessed were the fruits 
Which grew upon the Tree, 

When Thou didst bear the contrite soul 
To Paradise with Thee ^ ! 



10. 

To plead for us with His own Blood 
Our Great High Priest ascends ; 

Luke leads us up to Olivet, 
And there his Gospel ends. 



II. 

It ends with never-ending Grace, 
And never-ending Prayer, 

"Which Thou our Everlasting Priest 
Art off 'ring for us there. 



^ Luke X. 34. 8 Luke xxiii. 43. 



Sf. Licke the Evangelist. 261 

12. 

Praise to the Father, and the Son, 

The spotless Sacrifice ; 
And praise be to the Holy Ghost ; 

The One God, only Wise. 

Amen. 



Hymn 105. 
another on the same festival k 

St. Luke's ^^ second treatise,'' the Acts of the Apostles. 
I. 

TO plead for us with His own Blood 
Our Great High Priest ascends ; 
Luke leads us up to Olivet, 
And there his Gospel ends ^" 



His Gospel ends ; and there hegi7is 

His other holy Book ^, 
In w^hich we learn, O Lord, on Thee 

Seated in Heaven to look. 

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^ See the preceding Hymn, nj. 10. 
2 The Acts of the Apostles : Acts i. 9 — 11. 



262 Sf. Luke the Evangelist. 

3- 

" Acts of Apostles," is the name 
By which that Book we call ; 

Apostles act, but Thou, O Christ, 
The Doer art of all. 



4- 

Thou art in Heaven ; and what on earth 

Soever they design, 
Suggested by Thy Spirit is ; 

Whate'er they work is Thine. 

5- 
Here Thou art seen in Glory thron'd ; 

And crown' d with heavenly power 
Thou sendest down Thy promis'd Gift 

Of Tongues, a golden shower ^. 

6. 

" Why ^ look on us "l we nothing are ; 

Jesus, and He alone," 
Said Peter to the wondering crowds, 

" This mighty work has done." 

3 Acts ii. I — 5. * Acts iii. 12, 13. 



S/. Luke the Evangelist. 263 



St. Stephen's ^ eye illumin'd was, 
The open'd heav'n to see ; 

He saw Thy Glory, and in death 
Commends his soul to Thee. 



" Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute \ 

Thou persecutest Me ® ;" 
Saul, blinded by the splendour falls 

Of Thy bright Majesty. 

9- 

The persecuting Saul is made 

By Thee a holy Paul ; 
And now he gladly for Thy sake 

Suffers the loss of all. 



10. 

O Mighty Lord, Who on the Cross 

Wast slain a sacrifice. 
Now ever as the King of all 

Enthroned in the skies ; 



5 Acts vii. 55 — 59. ^ Acts ix. 4. 



264 Sf. LicJze the Evangelist. 

II. 

There reigning in the highest heaven, 
Ahiiighty Lord and True, 

Thou ever wilt Thy Church defend, 
And all Thy foes subdue. 

12. 
Depicted in this Holy Book 

Thy glorious Form we see ; 
And following Thine Apostles, Lord, 

We ever follow Thee. 

O Lord, Who didst Thy Spirit send 
From heav'n Thy Church to guide. 

Here Thou the Bridegroom ever art 
Remaining with the Bride. 

14. 

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
Who did St. Luke inspire ; 

And on the Church at Pentecost 
Came doAvn in Tongues of Fire. 





15* 




ever, ever, 


praises give 


i 


And glory 


to the Lord, 


i 


Who guides 


us to the realms of bHss i 


By His most Holy Word. 


1 






Amen. 



St Simon and St. Jude^ Apostles, 26^ 

Hymn 106. 

st. simon and st. jude, apostles. oct, 28 ^ 

1. 

WHEX Thou, O Lord, didst send the 
Twelve, 
Thy work of grace to do, 
Then joind in holy bands of Love 
They went forth t^vo and two. 

2. 
To-day, O Lord, before our eyes 

Two blest Apostles stand, 
For ever in Thy holy Church 

United hand in hand. 

3. 
Jude bids us for the holy faith 

With fervent zeal to fight ^ ; 
And Zeal shines brightly in thy name 

Simon the Cananite \ 

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Simon, Mercer 487. 

The Hymn for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinit)^, No. 79, 
may be also used on this day, with reference to the Collect 
for the Day. 

» Jude 3. The Epistle of the Day. 

9 Or Zelotes. The name Cananite in Hebrew has the same 
signification as Zelotes or Zealot, in Greek. See Luke vi. 153 
cp. with Matt. x. 45 Mark ilL 18. 



266 St. Simon and St. Jude^ Apostles. 

4- 

O Lord, send down into our hearts 

Thy Spirit from above ; 
And give us ever ferv^ent Zeal 

Temper'd with holy Love. 



5- 
Zeal, swoln with passion's cloudy smoke, 

Bursts forth in lurid fires, 
And needs the purifying breath 

Which holy Love inspires. 



Thy Boanerges \ once imflam'd 

AVith fires of furious Zeal, 
Cleans' d by Thy Spirit, glow'd with Love 

Such as Thy Seraphs feel. 



Zeal, which once stirr'd with maddening rage 

The persecuting Saul, 
Now, join'd with Love, an Angel makes, 

A Gabriel, in Paul. 



^ St. James and St. John, Luke ix. 54. IVlark iii. 17. 



Sf. Simon and St. Jiide^ Apostles. 267 



Kindle the altars of our hearts 

With ardent Zeal for Thee ; 
But, as on Manoah's ^, in the flame 

An Angel let there be. 

9- 

Give Zeal, that for Thy glory bums, 

And still Thy Law obeys ; 
Which, while with Stephen it rebukes, 

With Stephen loves and prays, 

10. 

So may we with Thy brethren ^, Lord, 

In heavenly glor}^ be ; 
For fellowship in holy love 

Is ^ Brotherhood to Thee. 

II. 

Glory to Father, and to Son, 
Who clad with Zeal ^ and Love, 

Sent do\^TL the blessed Comforter, 
The pure and holy Dove. 

2 Judges xiii. 20. 

3 St. Simon, probably, and St. Jude, were brethren of the 
Lord. See Luke vi. 15, 16 j Actsi. 133 compared with Matt. 
xiii. 55 j Mark iii 17. 

^ Matt. xii. 46—50. ^ Isa. lix. 17. 



268 All Saints' Day. 

12. 

O Gracious Spirit, ever brood 

On us with golden wing, 
Give zeal and love, that we Thy praise 

In heaven may alway sing. 

Amen. 



Hymn 107. 
all saints' dat. nov. i k 

I. 

HARK the sound of holy voices, chanting 
at the crystal sea 
Hallelujah ! Hallelujah ! Hallelujah ! Lord to 

Thee. 
Multitude, which none can number, like the stars, 

in glor\^ stands 
Clotlid in white apparel, holding palms of Vic- 
tor}^ in their hands. 

2. 
Patriarch, and holy Prophet, who prepar'd the 

Way of Christ, 
King, Apostle, Saint, and Mart}'r, Confessor, 

Evangelist, 

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All Saints Day. 269 

Saintly Maiden, godly Matron, Widows who have 

watch' d to prayer, 
Joind in holy concert singing to the Lord of all 

are there. 

3- 
They have come from tribulation, and have 

wash'd their robes in Blood, 
Wash'd them in the Blood of Jesus ; tried they 

were, and firm they stood ; 
Alock'd, imprison'd, ston'd, tormented, sawn 

asunder, slain with sword. 
They have conquer d Death and Satan, by the 

might of Christ the Lord. 

4- 

Marching with Thy Cross their banner, they have 
triumph' d, follo^^'ing 

Thee the Captain of Salvation, Thee their Sa- 
viour and their King ; 

Gladly, Lord, with Thee they suffer d : gladly, 
Lord, with Thee they died ; 

And by Death to Life immortal they were born 
and glorified. 

5- 

N ow they reign in heavenly glor}', now they walk 

in golden light, 
Xow they drink, as from a river, holy bliss and 

infinite ; 



2/0 Holy Communion. 

Love and Peace they taste for ever ; and all 

Truth and Knowledge see 
In the beatific vision of the Blessed Trinity. 

6. 
God of God, the One-begotten, Light of Light, 

Emmanuel, 
In Whose Body joined together all the Saints for 

ever dwell. 
Pour upon us of Thy fulness, that we may for 

evermore 
God the Father, God the Son, and God the 

Holy Ghost adore. 



Hymn io8. 
holt communion t, 

I. 

SON of God, Incarnate Word, 
Only Source of Light art Thou ; 
Thou the Fountain, whence, O Lord, 
Pardon, Grace, and Glory flow ; 
God in Man, we have from Thee 
Life and Immortality. 

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See also above, Hymns Nos. 34, part iii., and 47, 48, 49. 



Holy Communion, 271 

2. 
On Thy Passion's holy eve 
Thou a last bequest didst give, 
Whence we might the fruits receive 
Of Thy death, and by it live : 
Christ is in us, we in Christ, 
In the Holy Eucharist. 

There Thou ever feeding art 
Faithful souls with heavenly food ; 
There Thyself Thou dost impart. 
And dost cleanse us with Thy Blood ; 
There the Cloud with ^lanna teems, 
There the Rock with water streams. 

4- 

While we bend the supphant knee, 
Faith, O Lord, Thee present sees j 
Faith, O Lord, here touches Thee, 
In Thy holy mysteries ; 

There the heart the virtue feels 

Which from Thee flows forth, and heals. 

5- 

All unworth}-, Lord, are we,— 
Sinners in a sulhed dress, — 
But we come, that we may be 
Clothed in Thv worthiness. 



2/2 Holy Co77wiunio7i, 

Graciously receive us, Lord, 
Meekly coming at Thy word. 



Thou wert in a manger laid, 

And wilt not our hearts despise ; 

He who humbly to Thee pray'd 

Went with Thee to Paradise ; 

" Take and eat," Thou, Lord, dost say ; 

" Drink ye all," — we, Lord, obey. 



Now, O Lord, we fear not death. 
We in Thee, and in us Thou, 
Thou our life-blood, Thou our breath ; 
Gates of Hell are conquer'd now ; 
Christ who triumph' d o'er the grave 
Is omnipotent to save. 



8. 

Now we, Lord, Thy temples are. 
Here we peace and pardon find, 
Bond of Love and Balm of care, 
Courage, Health, and Light of mind. 
Pledge of Resurrection see, 
Hope of blest Eternity. 



Holy Baptism. 275 

9- 

Grant us penitential Love, 
Give us Faitli to feed on Thee ; 
Send Thy Spirit from above, 
That we. Lord, may welcom'd be, 
When from earthly toils releas'd, 
At Thy Heavenly i\Iamage-Feast. 

10. 
Glory to the Father be. 
Glory to the Saviour give, 
Who did suffer on the tree, 
That we might for ever live \ 
And the Holy Ghost adore, 
Praise and bless for evermore. 

Amen. 



Hymn 109. 

HOLT BAPriSM^. 

I. 

HOW wondrous and mysterious are 
The ^Methods of Thy Grace, 
Which, Lord, revealed in Thy Word 
From age to age we trace ! 

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Mercer 197, S. P. C. K. 37. 
See above, No. 66. 

T 



2 74 Holy Baptisin. 



The Spirit on the Waters mov'd ^, 

At the Creation's morn, 
And from the Waters, by His Power, 

The Heaven and Earth were born \ 

5. 

On the baptismal Water broods 

Regenerating Love, 
And there the Soul is born anew, 

Created from above. 

4- 

The Deluge came, and to the world 

Its Waters were a grave ; 
But the same Waters bore the Ark, 

Which did the righteous save. 

5- 
Baptismal Waters are a grave 

To those who God deride ^ ; 
Baptismal Waters save the just^. 

Who in Thy Church abide. 



^ Gen. i. 2. ^2 Pet. iii. 5. 

^ ** Gratiae sacramentorum malis insunt, non autem iis pro- 
sunt, verum etiam obsunt." — S. Aug. 
^ I Pet. iii. 21. 



Holy Baptism. 275 

6. 

Through the Red Sea Thy People pass, 

Which overwhelms the Foe ; 
And thence to Canaan's promis'd Rest 

Forth on their march they go. 

7- 
Baptismal Waters drown the Foe, 

O Jesu, in Thy Blood ; 
And thence we to our Canaan march, 

Cleans'd by that Holy Flood. 



In Jordan Thou didst sanctify 

The natural Element, 
Empowering Water to become 

A Holy Sacrament *. 

9- 

" By Water and the Holy Ghost," 
Thou, Blessed Lord, didst say, 

" Ye must regenerated be ^ ;" — 
We hear Thee, and obey. 

* " By the Baptism of Thy well-beloved Son in the river 
Jordan didst sanctify water to the mystical washing away of 
sin." — Office for Baptism of Infants. 

^ John iii. 5. 

T 2 



276 Holy Baptism, 

10. 

AVater and Blood came forth, O Lord, 
Out of Thy wounded side ^ ; 

And by those cleansing streams of life 
We are revivified. 



II. 

Thou, Lord, baptiz'd in Thine own Blood, 

And buried in the grave, 
Didst raise Thyself to endless life, 

Omnipotent to save ', 

12. 

Baptiz'd into Thy death we died, 

Were buried, rose with Thee ; 
That we might live with Thee to God, 

And ever blest may be. 

13- 

Thee, risen in triumph from the grave. 

Did Thine Apostles see j 
And heard Thy words, — " All power is given 

In heaven and earth to Me ; 



John xix. 34, and I John v. 6. 8. 



Holy Baptism. 277 



14- 



'^ Go forth into the world, Go forth. 

And all evangelize ; 
Go forth into the world, and all 

Into One Name baptized" 



15- 
O may the World Thy Temple be, 

A living Temple, Lord, 
Growing in light, and life, and love, 

A Paradise restor'd. 

16. 

Send us Thy showers of grace, that we, 
Grafted in Thee, the Vine ^ 

May there abide, and may our lives 
With golden fruitage shine. 

17- 

Baptiz'd in Christ we died to sin. 
And to new life were born ; 

O may we rise, and hail with joy 
The Resurrection's morn ! 



^ Mate, xxviii. 18, 19. Mark xvi. 15, 16. 
^ John XV. I — 8. 



278 Holy Baptism, 

18. 
Baptiz'd in Christ we put on Christ ^, 

And then were cloth' d in Light ; 
O may we keep that garment pure, 

And ever Avalk in white ^ ; 

19. 

So may we stand with Saints in bUss ^5 
That white-rob' d Company, 

Before the everlasting Throne, 
And render thanks to Thee. 

20. 
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 

One God and Persons Three, 
Whose Name we bear, in Whom we live, 
Eternal glor}- be. 

Amen. 

9 Gal. iii. 27. 1 Rev. iii. 4. 

2 Rev. vii. 13. 



ConJi7niiation. 27c 

Hymn iio. 

confirmation k 
Part I. 

Referring to the ivhole Congregation. 
I. 

FATHER of all, in Whom we live ; 
To Thee we praise and gloty give ; 
Fountain of Love I AVho didst by Grace 
Create anew our fallen race, 
Making us sons of God to be, 
Adopted in Thy Son by Thee, 
O may Thy Blessing on us shine. 
And, Father, keep us ever Thine. 

2. 

O Son of God, through AVhom we live ; 
To Thee we praise and glor}^ give ; 
O God made Flesh, Who hast renew" d 
Man in Thine ovm similitude ; 



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Monk 222. 

Part of the Hymn for Whitsunday, above. No. 57, may also 
be used at Coniirmation. 



^ 8 o Confi^nnation, 

Baptiz'd into Thy Body, Lord, 
And grafted in the Incarnate Word, 
May we for ever in Thee dwell ; 
Be ever our Emmanuel. 



O Holy Ghost, by Whom we live ; 
To Thee we praise and glory give ; 
Thou,. Blessed Spirit, Holy Dove, 
Who dost on hallow' d waters move ; 
By Whom, in them, we joined are 
To Christ, and God's own nature share ; 
Brood o'er us with the shadowings 
For ever of Thy golden wings. 

Amen. 

Part II. * 

Referring specially to those ivho come to be Confrmed : to be used 
before the laying on of hands. 



OGOD, in Whose all-searching eye 
Thy servants stand, to ratify 
The Vow Baptismal by them made. 
When first Thy hand was on them laid ; 

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Confirmation. 281 

Bless them, O holy Father, bless, 
Who Thee with heart and voice confess ; 
May they, acknowledg'd as Thine own, 
Stand evermore before Thy Throne. 



2. 

O Christ, Who didst at Pentecost 

Send down from heaven the Holy Ghost \ 

And at Samaria baptize ^ 

Those whom Thou didst evangelize ; 

And then on Thy baptiz'd confer 

Thy best of gifts, the Comforter, 

By Apostolic hands, and prayer ; 

Be with us now, as Thou wert there. 



3. 

Arm these Thy soldiers. Mighty Lord, 
With shield of Faith, and Spirit's sword ; 
Forth to the battle may they go. 
And boldly fight against the foe. 
With banner of the Cross unfurl' d, 
And by it overcome the World ; 
And so at last receive from Thee 
The Palm and Crown of Victory. 



^ Acts viii. 12 — 17. 



282 Confirmation . 

4- 

Come, Ever-blessed Spirit, come. 

And make Thy servants' hearts Thy home ; 

May each a hving Temple be, 

Hallow'd for ever. Lord, to Thee ; 

Enrich that Temple's holy shrine 

With sevenfold gifts of grace divine ; 

With Wisdom, Light, and Knowledge, bless. 

Strength, Counsel, Fear, and Godliness. 

5- 

O Trinity in Unity, 

One only God, and Persons Three ; 

In Whom, through Whom, by Whom we li^'e, 

To Thee we praise and glory give ; 

O grant us so to use Thy grace, 

That we may see Thy glorious face, 

And ever with the heavenly host 

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 

Amen. 



Confirmation. 283 



Part III. ^ 

After the haying on of the Hands of the Bishop ; to be sung specially 
by those ivho ha've been confirmed. 



OUR hearts and voices let us raise 
To God in songs of thanks and praise ; 
We laud Thee for the Gift which Thou 
Hast given to Thy seiTants now ; 
Gift from Thy Love's exhaustless store, 
Seal of past graces, pledge of more, 
Of graces that for ever grow 
As onward on our course we go. 



Pilgrims in this world's ^\'ildemess 
We see Thee near, and seeing bless ; 
Ours are the bounties now, which Christ 
Sheds in the Holy Eucharist ; 
The Manna now to us is given, 
The Living Bread that comes from heaven 
The Rock for us with water flows j 
Himself on us the Lord bestows. 



^ Tune : Melita, Monk 222. 



284 Holy Matrimony, 

3- 

O speed us onward in the race, 

From strength to strength, from grace to grace ; 

So may we, by Thy Spirit blest, 

Come to the Canaan of our rest, 

Mounting on wings of Faith and Love 

To the Jerusalem above ; 

And praise Thee everlastingly, 

One only God and Persons Three. 

Amex. 



Hymn hi. 

holt matrimont 7. 

I. 

HOW blest are hearts, which Christ the 
Lord 
Couples, as with a silver cord, 

In spousal unity ; 
And animated are with love, 
And inspirations from above, 
O Holy Ghost, by Thee ! 



^ Tunes : Purleigh, Monk 199 j Chapel Royal, S. P. C. K. 
65. 



Holy Matrimony, 285 

2. 

When Angels sang Creation's birth, 
Man, fashion'd from the dust of earth. 

In Eden was alone ; 
But God made Eve from Adam's side, 
And brought her to him as a Bride, 

And wiird them to be one. 



3. 
O Holy Wedlock, ratified 
In heaven ; a knot for ever tied 

By God in Paradise ; 
O happiness beyond compare, 
AVliat tongues of Angels to declare 

Thy blessedness suffice ] 

4- 
Anthems angelical were heard, 
When Christ, the Everlasting Word, 

To wed His Spouse did come. 
And take His consecrated Bride, 
Cleansed by the life-blood from His side, 

Unto His Heavenly Home, 

5- 

At Cana's feast, that Heavenly Guest 
Did first His Godhead manifest, 



i86 Holy Matrimony. 

And water change to wine ; 
In Wedlock, tears of sorrowing earth 
Are changed to wine of heavenly mirth, 

By power and love divine. 

6. 
Mirror'd in nuptial purity 
The Marriage of the Church we see, 

And Christ the Bridegroom's Love ; 
Angels look down, and anthems sing, 
The Holy Dove, with golden wing. 

Sheds blessings from above. 



7- 
Bless, ever bless, Thy servants. Lord, 
Whom Thou dost join in sweet accord. 

The Bridegroom and the Bride ; 
In sorrow, sickness, and in health. 
In tribulation and in wealth. 

Be Thou their Help and Guide. 



Be with them, Lord, as day by day 
They with one heart together pray, 

Thy Word together read. 
Together at Thine altar kneel. 
And with Thy Blood their union seal, 

On Thee tos-ether feed. 



Visitation of the Sick. 287 

9- 

May they for ever have Thee near, 
Making them to Thyself more dear, 

And each to each m Thee \ 
So, when from earthly cares releas'd. 
May they at Thine own Marriage Feast 

Be blest eternally. 

JO. 

To Father, whose paternal Love 
Sends Benedictions from above, 

Eternal praises be ; 
And God the Son, Incarnate Word, 
With Holy Spirit, be ador'd ; 

One God and Persons Three. 

Amen. 



Hymn 112. 

THE VISirAriON OF THE SICK ^ 

'' Peace be to this house and to all that divell in it /" 

[. 

PEACE to this house ! O Thou whose way 
Was on the waves, whose voice did stay 
The wild wind's rage, come, Lord, and say 
Peace to this house ! 

^ Tune : Troyte^ Monk 170. 



288 Visitation of the Sick, 

2. 

Thou who in pity for the weak 
Didst quit Thy heavenly Throne to seek 
And save the lost, Come, Lord, and speak 
Peace to this house ! 

3. 
Thou, who dost all our sorrows know, 
And when our tears of anguish flow 
Dost feel compassion, Come, bestow 
Peace on this house ! 

4- 

Thou w^ho in agony didst pray, 
" Take, Father, take this cup away," 
And then wast strengthen'd, Come and say 
Peace to this house ! 

5- 
Thou, by whose precious death we live, 
From which we all our hope derive. 
Thou Lord and Saviour ! Come and give 
Peace to this house ! 

6. 

Thou who didst hang upon the tree, 
Uniting God and Man in Thee, 
And wert our Peace ^, Come, Lord, and be 
Peace to this house ! 

9 Eph. ii. 14, 15. 



Visitation of the Sick. 289 

7- 

O Conqueror by suffering I 
O mighty Victor ! glorious King ! 
From out of pain and sorrow bring 
Peace to this house ! 



Thou who triumphant from the dead 
Thine hands didst o'er the Apostles spread, 
And say, " Peace to you V' Com.e, and shed 
Peace on this house ! 

9- 

Thou who didst on the clouds ascend. 
And then the Holy Spirit send, 
Send Him to comfort and defend 
All in this house ! 



Lord, in the Sacramental food 
Of Thine own Body and Thy Blood, 
Peace that is felt, not understood, 
Give to this house 1 

II. 

Save, save us sinking in the deep. 
Give ease from pain, and quiet sleep, 
And under Thy wing's shelter keep 
All in this house ! 

^ John XX. 19. 26. 



290 Visitation of the Sick. 

12. 

Restore us to Thine House of Prayer, 
That we may praise Thy love and care, 
And taste again together there 

Peace in Thine House ! 

13. 

O make our doubts and terrors cease, 
And from the bands of sin release, 
In soul and body give us peace. 
Peace to this house ! 

14. 
" Peace to this house," come. Lord, and say ; 
Come to us, Lord, and with us stay ; 
O give, and never take away 

Peace from this house ! 

And when at last our fainting breath 
On trembling lips scarce quivereth, 
O bring us through the gate of Death, 
Lord, to Thine House ! 

16. 

To Thine own House in Paradise, 
To Thine own House above the skies. 
To live the life that never dies. 
Lord, in Thine House ! 



Communion of the Sick. 291 

And sing to Father praise, and Thee, 
And Holy Spirit, Persons Three, 
For Peace bestow' d eternally 

Lord, in Thine House ! 

Amen. 



Hymn 113. 

communion of the sick 2. 

I. 

OFEAR not, though before thee lies 
A dark and narrow way, 
For at thy side thy Saviour walks, 
Thy Comforter and Stay. 



Hold fast His hand, and lean in faith 

Upon His might}^ arm ; 
His love and power will guide thy steps. 

And shelter thee from harm. 

2 Tunes: St. Anns^ Monk 197, Mercer 20, Crotch p. 3, 
Manual p. 73 j Lincoln, Monk 26 j London Ne^v, Monk 192, 
Mercer 95, S. P. C. K. 27 5 C. M., Met. Tunes xxiv. 
U 2 



292 Communion of the Sick, 

3. 

Thou, Son of God, eternal Lord. 

Who wearest human flesh. 
And dost Thy Blood and Body give 

To cleanse us and refresh ; 



4- 

O make our smful bodies clean 

With this most holy food 
Of Thine own flesh, and wash our souls 

With Thy most precious Blood. 

5- 

The Resurrection and the Life 

Be Thou to us, O Lord, 
Fulfil to us the gracious pledge 

Of Thy most holy Word ^ 



" Who eats My Flesh, and drinks My Blood, 

He ever dwells in Me, 
And shall by Me at the last Day 

Uprais'd in glory be." 



3 John vi. 54. 56. 



Commiinio7i of the Sick, 293 

7. 
Therefore we fear not, though we tread 

A dark and narrow way ; 
For walking at our side art Thou, 

Our Comforter and Stay. 



We clasp Thy hand, and lean in faith 
On Thy most mighty arm ; 

Thy love and power support our steps, 
And shelter us from harm. 

9- 

Thou wilt us safely lead through death 

Forth to a blessed place, 
Where we may evermore behold 

The brightness of Thy face. 

10. 

Then praise the Father and the Son, 

By whom we ever live. 
And praise to God the Holy Ghost 

Blessing and glory give. 

Amen. 



294 Burial of the Dead. 

Hymn 114. 

burial of the dead k 

I. 

WE hear the tolling bell, 
We see the bier and pall, 
Bearers and Mourners cloth'd in black 
The solemn Funeral. 

2. 
We see the open Grave, 
We hear the sobbing moan. 
When earth to earth and dust to dust 
Falls on the coffin thrown. 

3. 

We hear the holy prayers, 

We see the closed ground, 

Where nought appears to human eye, 

Except a heaving mound. 



4 Tune: St. Michaers, Monk 55, Mercer 51, S. P. C. K. 
46. 

See also Hymn above for Easter Even, No. 44, and also No. 
61 and No. 77, and the Hymn below for the Consecration of a 
Churchyard, No. 121. 



Burial of the Dead, 295 

4- 

The Bearers rob'd in luhite 
Appear 7iot to our eyes ; 
The Angels, wafting on their wings 
The soul to Paradise. 

5. 

We do not see the Souls, 

Which there enjoy repose. 

And taste such bhss as here on earth 

No heart of mortal knows. 

6. 
We see not yet the joys 
That all the Just await, 
When, Lord, they will with bodies rais'd 
Stand at Thy Palace-gate. 

7. 
Lift from our hearts the veil, 
And make us by Thy light 
To see the world unseen, and walk 
By faith, and not by sight. 



O gracious Lord, to Thee 

We praise and glory give ; 

For Thou didst die and rise again, 

That we might ever live. 



2g6 Burial of the Dead. 

9- 

O Death, where is thy sting ? 
Grave, where thy victory % 
Death and the Grave are now the path 
To Life that cannot die. 

lO. 

The Way, the Truth, the Life, 
O mighty Lord, art Thou, 
The Resurrection from the Dead, 
To Thee shall all things bow. 

II. 
O therefore praise the Lord, 
The Father, and the Son, 
And Holy Ghost, Whose breath is Life ; 
Eternal Three in One. 

A:\iEN. 



Churching of Women. 297 



Hymn 115. 

rhanksgivwg of women after child- 
BIRTH K 



ON every new-boni Babe of earth 
A heavenly hght is shed, 
Incarnate Saviour, by Tliy Birth, 
And from Thy lowly bed. 



Thou, beaming forth with orient glow. 
Hast gilded with Thy light 

Our human nature lying low 
In the dark shades of night. 



And in Thy Resurrection's mom 

x\nother' Birth we have, 
Since Thou our nature. Lord, hast borne 

In triumph through the grave. 



^ Tunes: Northampton, Monk I02j Mercer 306 j Irhhy 
Mercer 197, S. P. C. K. 37. 



298 Churching of Women, 

4. 
And Thou hast made us heirs of heaven, 

And sons of God to be ; 
And glorious Hfe to us is given 

Regenerate in Thee. 

5- 
Thou hast transfomi'd our natural weeds 

By sanctifying showers, 
And Thou hast made them bear the seeds 

Of amaranthine flowers. 

6. 
Bright Angels of the King of kings 

His countenance behold, 
And sheltering with their silver ^\dngs 

Christ's little ones enfold. 

7- 
Therefore in childbirth throes, which Eve 

In sorrow bore and pain, 
Are gleams to all, who Thee receive, 

Of joy and endless gain. 

8. 

Then praise the Giver of our breath, 

Wio helps us in distress. 
And guides us through the pangs of death 

To life and joyfulness. 



Chu7'ching of Wome?L 299 

9- 

O praise be to the lo\ing Lord, 

Who heard His Handmaid's prayer, 

And has her to His House restofd 
To bless His goodness there. 

10. 
Preserve her, Lord, and ^\ith her bring 

Us to Thy courts above. 
That we together there may sing 

Praise to Thy boundless love. 

II. 

May Earth, from throes of bondage free ^, 

Sing ^nth the heavenly host 
Praise to the Father, praise to Thee, 

Praise to the Holy Ghost. 

Amen. 

^ Rom. viii. 19 — 22. 



500 Commination, 

Hymn ii6. 
commination 7. 



A VOICE amid the thunder's roar 
A Curse from Sinai spake 
To those who keep not all the Law ^ 
But one commandment break. 

2. 

That Curse is past, for God in Man 

Has all the Law observ'd, 
Christ hanging on the Cross endur'd 

The Curse that Man deserv'd '\ 

3. 

The Curse is past, but not the Law, 
Which is fulfill' d by Love, 

Love quicken'd by the Holy Ghost 
Descending from above. 



'^ Tune : C. M., Monk 73, Chope 23, Redhead 54. 
See also above, Hymn 29, for Ash-Wednesday. 
^ Deut. xxvii. 2>^. 
^ Gal. iii. 13 5 Rom. viii. 3. 



Commi7iation, 301 

4- 

The tender-mercies of our God 

Constrain us to obey, 
And call us back with words of power, 

When from His path we stray. 

5- 
O voice most terrible, if Love 

Should speak to us in ire, 
** Depart from Me, ye cursed ones. 

To everlasting fire ^" 

6. 

O doom most terrible, if we 

Should to the Mountains cr}^, 
" Hide us, O hide us from the Lamb, 

And from His wrathful eye ^ ! " 



/• 
Therefore though Penance is asleep. 

Though Censures now are weak, 
Lord, in our hearts Thy Judgment-seat 

Set up, and make it speak. 



^ Matt. XXV. 41. 2 Rev. vi. 16. 



302 Commination, 

8. 
Not with constraint and servile fear, 

But mth a cheerful will, 
With filial love, and Angels' zeal, 

May we Thy Law fulfil ! 

9- 
So may we at the last great Day 

Not hear an Ebal's ^ voice, 
But plac'd on the right hand by Thee 

Eternally rejoice. 

lO. 

The Father praise, who warns in love, 

That we may ever live ; 
To God the Son, and Holy Ghost, 

Blessing and glor)^ give. 

Amen. 

^ Deut. xi. 29 J Josh. viii. 33. 



Prayers at Sea, 303 

Hymn 117. 

praters at sea k 

The Sailor's Hymn. 



THE Ark of God in safety rode 
Upon the foaming waves ; 
The hand of God is with us still. 
He loves us, and He saves. 



2. 

A Way was open'd in the Sea 
Parted by Moses' rod : 

The stormy surge a highway is 
To all who trust in God. 



3. 

Jonah, restor d to light of day, 
Rose from the dark abyss ; 

And all who die in Christ will rise 
To everlasting bliss. 



^ Tunes : Martyr d'^m^ Monk 210, Handbook 27 j Bedfordy 
Mercer 331, Monk 153. 



304 Prayers at Sea. 

4- 
The liquid billows of the deep 

A pavement were to Thee ^ ; 
And, Lord, Thy mighty mandate hush'd 

The winds and raging sea. 

5- 
O Thou, AVhose way is on the waves, 

Defend us on the deep ; 
Our Queen, our Countr}^, all we love, 

Bless, and in safety keep. 

6. 
Thee, ever present as we sail. 

Imagination sees ; 
And fondly feeds the faithful heart 

With holy similes. 

7- 
Our towering Mast, that spreads its arms 

Outstretching far and wide. 
Is like the all-embracing Cross, 

On which our Saviour died. 



The Flag, that floats upon its head, 
To sun and breeze unfurl' d. 

Is like the Banner of the Cross, 
Which overcomes the World. 

5 Matt. xiv. 25. 



Pi^ayers at Sea. 305 

9- 

Anchors, that safely moor our Ship, 

In deep abysses he ; 
But Christian Hope with firm-set grasp 

Is anchored in the sky ^ 

10. 

Sometimes we plunge in yawning gulfs, 

Sometimes we are at rest ; 
Sometimes the Church is tempest-tost, 

And now no more distrest. 

II. 

Each at his post, the work assign'd 

In order we fulfil ; 
So may we in the bark of Christ 

Obey His holy will. 

12. 
Our bodies are with earthly food. 

Lord, by Thy bounty fed ; 
O give, and may our hearts receive. 

Thy ever-living Bread. 

13. 
Aiding our toil the prosperous Wind 

Propels our straining sails ; 
The Holy Spirit wafts us on 

With His propitious gales. 

6 Heb. vi. 19. See above, Hymn 56. 

X 



3o6 Prayers at Sea. 

14. 

The Chart and Compass, in the deep 

Our trackless path declare ; 
Compass and Chart, which guide to heaven, 

The Holy Scriptures are. 

The Helmsman steers us through the storms 

And quicksands to the shore ; 
Christ at the Helm His Vessel guides 

To Peace for evermore. 



16. 
Our ship may founder ; but the Sea 

Will one day yield its dead \ 
And all Christ's loyal crew will then 

Be safe with Christ their Head. 



17- 

The Stars will fall, the Sun be dark, 
There will be no more Sea ^ ; 

And in a billowy flood of Fire 
The Earth will whelmed be ^ 



^ Rev. XX. 13. 8 Rev. xxi. i. 

^ 2 Pet. iii. 10 — 12. 



Prayers at Sea. 307 

18. 

But safely on the flaming waves 

The Ship of Christ will ride, 
And all will come to land with joy 

Who in that Ship abide. 

19. 
Thus ever Thou, O Blessed Lord, 

Art with us on the Sea ; 
O may we in the Heavenly Port 

Be ever, Lord, with Thee ! 

20. 

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost 

Eternal praise be given, 
The God who guides through earthly storms 

To endless joys in heaven. 

Amen. 



X 2 



3o8 For Ember Weeks, 



Hymn ii8. 

for ember weeks; ^nd at the ordination 
of bishops, priests, and deacons k 



OLORD, Who in Thy love divine 
Didst leave in heaven the Ninety-nine ^, 
In pity for a World undone, 
And gav'st Thy life to save the one, 
And didst it on Thy shoulders bear 
In joy to heaven, receive our prayer. 



Thou who the night in prayer didst spend, 
And then Thy Twelve Apostles send ^ ; 
And bidd'st us pray the Harvest's Lord 
To send forth sowers of the Word *, 
Hear us, and these Thy servants bless 
With sevenfold gifts of holiness. 



^ TuisES : Mel'ita, Monk 222 j Bremen, Mercer 235, Monk 
171, S. P. C. K. 62 ; S^'m Tune, S. P. C. K. 69. 

Part of the Hymn for Whitsunday, above, No. 57, may be 
now used. Also Hymn 6. 

2 Matt, xviii. 12. Luke xv. 4. 3 Luke vi. 12. 

* Matt. ix. ^8. Luke x. 2. 



For Ember Weeks. 309 

3' 
Look down, with gracious eye behold, 
With watchful care protect Thy Fold ; 
Secure from hireling Shepherds keep, 
Which feed themselves, and not the sheep, 
And when the prowling wolf is nigh, 
Forsake the flock in fear and fly. 



4- 
O Thou, who didst at Pentecost 
Send down from heaven the Holy Ghost, 
That He might with Thy Church abide 
For ever, to defend and guide ; 
Illuminate and strengthen. Lord, 
The Preachers of Thy Holy Word. 

May all Thy Pastors faithful be ; 
Not labouring for themselves, but Thee ; 
And may they feed with wholesome food 
The sheep and lambs bought by Thy Blood ; 
Tending Thy flock, O may they prove 
How dearly they the Shepherd love ! 

6. 

That which the Holy Scriptures teach. 
That, and that only, may they preach ; 



3IO For Ember Weeks. 

May they the true Foundation lay, 
Build gold thereon, not wood or hay ^ ; 
And meekly preach, in days of strife, 
The sermon of a holy life. 

7- 
As ever in Thy holy Eyes, 
And Stewards of Thy Mysteries, 
May they the People teach to see 
Not, Lord, Thy Ministers, but Thee ; 
To see a loving Saviour's face 
Reveal'd in all the means of grace. 

8. 
May they Thy Word with boldness speak, 
And bear with tenderness the weak \ 
Not seeking their own things as best. 
But what may edify the rest ; 
With wisdom and simplicity, 
And, most of all, with charity. 

9- 

O may Thy People loving be. 
And in Thy Pastors honour Thee, 
And working with them for them pray, 
And gladly Thee in them obey ; 
Receive the prophet of the Lord, 
And gain the prophet's own reward ^ 

^ I Cor. iii. ii, 12. ^ Matt. x. 41. 



The Qiieeiis Accession. 3 r i 

10. 

So may we, when our work is done. 
Together stand before the Throne ; 
And joyful hearts and voices raise, 
In one united song of praise 
With all the bright celestial Host, 
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 

Amen. 



Hymn 119, 

i:he ^UEEirs accession, june 20 7. 

I. 

OSON of God, Eternal Word, 
Conqueror of Satan, Mighty Lord, 
Who hast ascended up on high 
And reignest there eternally ; 
To Whom the Father now has given 
All power and might in earth and heaven " ; 
Thee Lord and King the Angels own. 
And cast their crowns before Thy Throne ; 
Thee shall all Nations serve, to Thee 
All Kings shall humbly bow the knee ^. 



"* Tunes 1 Lambeth^ S. P. C. K. 2c, Mercer 145 Bremen, 
Monk 171, Mercer 235. 

^ Matt, xxviii. 18. ^ Ps. Jxxii. 11. 



312 The Queens Accession, 



How glorious will Thy Kingdom be, 

How awful, Lord, Thy Majesty, 

In that great Day, the Day of Doom, 

When Thou upon the clouds wilt come, 

Like lightning's flash ^ through darkness dim, 

With legions of bright Seraphim ; 

And the last Trump shall rend the skies. 

And all shall from their graves arise. 

And all be call'd their God to meet. 

And stand before Thy Judgment-seat ! 

Thy Kingdom now Thou dost maintain 

By earthly Kings, who by Thee reign ^ ; 

In lawful things man service owes 

To those on whom God power bestows ^ j 

Thy Ministers, O Lord, are they ; 

Obeying them we Thee obey ^ ; 

True Loyalty expects reward 

Not here from men, but from the Lord ; 

Who for his Queen and Country dies, 

He is a Martyr in Thine Eyes. 



1 Matt. xxiv. 27. 2 Prov. viii. 15. 

2 Rom. xiii. i — 4, the Second Lesson for the Day, and 
I Pet. ii. 13. 15, the Epistle for the Day. 

* Rom, xiii. 4. 



Consecration of Churches, 513 

4- 

May Kings and Queens Thy Realm extend, 
Thy Gospel love, Thy Truth defend ; 
May they and all the World confess 
That Thrones subsist by Righteousness ^ ; 
And, Lord, Thy best of Blessings shed 
Upon Thy chosen Sen^ant's head ; 
Give Her what Heav'n alone imparts, 
A Throne in all Her People's hearts ; 
Give Blessings here, hereafter give 
The Cro^^^l and Palm that ever live. 

A:^iEX. 



Hymn 120. 



CONSECRATION OF CHURCHES, OR LAYING THE 
FIRST STONE 6. 



WHEN the Architect Almighty had created 
heaven and earth, 
Temple of the glorious Godhead, Angels shouted 
at their birth '^ ; 

2 Prov. xiv. 34; xvi. 12. 

^ Tunes: Chester, Mercer 313 5 SuppUcatkn, S. P. C. K. 
44; St. Patrick, Manual p. 121 j St. Thomas, Monk 395 Alle^ 
luia, duke carmen. Monk 52, Chope 18 j Sahburg, S. P. C. K. 
loi ; Chichester, Monk 136. 

See also above, Hymns Nos. 58 and 79. 

^ Job xxxvlii. 7. 



314 Consecration of Churches, 

Morning stars in holy concert sang a joyful 

Jubilee, 
And the whole Creation chanted Hallelujah, 

Lord, to Thee ! 



In a mo^dng Tabernacle Thou of old didst 
deign to dwell. 

In the darkness and the stillness of the holy 
oracle ; 

In the cloud Thy power was shrouded, in the 
fire Thy glory shone. 

In the consecrated Temple of the royal Solo- 
mon ^ 

3- 

In that holy Place Isaiah did Thy throne of 
glory see ^, 

And he heard the voice of Seraphs singing hymns 
of praise to Thee ; 

Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Hosts, eter- 
nally 

Sing they in the heavenly Temple to the Blessed 
Trinity \ 



^ 2 Chron. vii. i. ^ Isa. vi. i — 3. 

1 Rev. iv. 8. 



Consecratio7i of Churches, 315 

4- 

God in human flesh appearing, shrining man 
with Deity, 

In the Temple was presented, though the Tem- 
ple's Lord was He : 

In the Temple Holy Jesus as a Child and 
Teacher sate ; 

And the Feast of Dedication God with us did 
celebrate ^ 

5- 
Look from heav'n, and shine upon us with the 

splendour of Thy face, 
Send on us the Pentecostal benedictions of Thy 

grace \ 
Ever present and propitious to the eye of Faith 

appear 
In the worship of the Temple Avhich to Thee 

to-day we rear. 

6. 

O'er the Font's baptismal waters may the Holy 

Spirit move, 
Quickening the holy laver with regenerating love ; 
Lord, be ever at the Altar feeding with celestial 

food, 
Pardoning, refreshing, cleansing, with Thy body 

and Thy blood. 

2 John X. 22. 



3 16 Consecration of Churches, 

7- 
May Thy Ministers be faithful, sowing here the 

seed divine, 
Seed of EvangeUc doctrine, ApostoUc discipline ; 
May Thy People bear abundant fruits of Faith 

and Love to Thee, 
And in heav'n by Angel-Reapers may they 

safely gamer'd be. 



Here, O Lord, an earthly Temple to Thy Name 

we dedicate. 
And we pray Thee with Thy Holy Spirit us to 

consecrate ; 
Consecrate us to be temples of the Blessed Three 

in One, 
Founded on Apostles, Prophets, Jesus Christ the 

Corner-stone : 

9- 

So when all the earthly Temples shall dissolv'd 
be in the dust, 

We may at the Resurrection rise in glory with 
the Just, 

When the heavenly City shining, and adorned as 
a Bride ^ 

For her Husband in His glory shall be ever glo- 
rified ; 

3 Rev. xxl. 2. 



Consecratio7i of a Chiuxhyard. ^ij 

lO. 

When that holy City gleaming with its jewels, 

pearls, and gold 
Shall descend and in its portals all the risen 

saints enfold ; 
May w^e in its light eternal sing with all the 

heavenly host 
Glory be to God the Father, to the Son, and 

Holy Ghost. 

Amen. 



Hymn 121. 

consecration of a churchyard^. 

I. 

FROM Jesu's eyes, beside the grave, 
Some tears were seen to flow ; 
And when a holy Martyr died *, 
Were heard the sounds of woe. 



Son*ow we must, but bounds are set 

By Faith to Sorrow's scope j 
Mourn for the Dead, but do not mourn 

As they who have no hope ^ 

* Tunes : Lincoln, Monk 26 j CM., Met. Tunes xxiv. 
See also above, the Hymn for Easter Even, No. 44, and 
No. 61, and for the Burial of the Dead, above. No. 114. 

5 St. Stephen. Acts viii. 2. ^ 1 Thess. iv. 13. 



3i8 Consec7'ation of a Churchy a7'd. 

3- 

Faith, looking on this hallow' d ground, 

A holy Garden sees, 
A Paradise, where lovely Flowers 

Will grow, and fruitful Trees. 

4- 
Here, on this ground, a heavenly dew, 

A dew of herbs, is shed : 
And many here will wake and sing, 

When Earth shall yield her Dead ^ 

5- 
" I heard a voice from heaven. The dead 

Who die in Christ, are blest ; 
The Spirit says. They are at peace, 

And from their labours rest I" 



6. 

Members of Christ their bodies were ^, 
And, join'd to Christ their Head, 

Will by His Resurrection rise 
In triumph from the dead. 



^ Isa. xxvi. 19. ^ Rev. xiv. 13. 

9 I Cor. vl. 15. 



Consecration of a Churchyai'd. 319 



And they the Spirits Temples were ^, 
And though dissolved in death, 

They will in glory^ be restofd, 
Rais'd by the Spirits breath -. 



The Trump shall sound, and in the clouds 

The Lord shall be reveal' d, 
And every Grave shall open'd be, 

And every Tomb unseal' d. 

9- 

Christ will transform His risen Saints, 

With power and love di\dne ; 
Their bodies will in heavenly light 

Like to His Bodv shine ^ 



10. 

Caird from their graves to meet the Lord, 

And caught up in the air *, 
They will to heaven be borne and dwell 

For ever with Him there. 



1 I Cor. iii. i6j vl. 19. - Rom. viii. 11. 

3 Phil. iii. 21. ^ I Thess. iv. 17. 



320 Consecration of a CJmrchyard. 



O therefore bless the Lord of Life, 
Who pluck'd from Death his sting, 

And will His people through the Grave 
To joys immortal bring. 

12. 

Lord, give us grace to die to sin, 

And rise to life renew' d ; 
That we may rise to endless life 

In Thy similitude. 

Glory to Father, and to Son, 
Who died that we may live. 

And to the quickening Spirit praise 
And adoration give. 

Amen. 



Missions to the Heatheji. 321 

Hymn 122. 

MISSIONS ro THE HEATHENS 



THE Banner of the Cross 
Shall be to all unfurl'd ; 
The Gospel of the Li\dng God 
Be preach'd to all the World \ 

2. 
Refreshed with streams of life, 
A\Tiich from that Gospel flows, 
The wilderness and desert place 
Shall blossom as the rose. 

3- 
" Go forth," the Lord has said, 
"And preach the Word to all ;" 
May all the World adore Thy Name, 
And Thee their Saviour call. 

4. 
By Apostolic lips. 
May in all heathen lands 
Thy Word be preach'd, and Grace dispens'd 
By Apostohc hands. 

5 Tunes: St. Mk/iaePs, Monk 55, Mercer 51, S. P. C. K. 
97; Sutton or Poplar, Crotch p. 39 j Commandments^ Monk 1 5 1. 

For ** Missionary Hymns" see also above, Nos. 58 and 80. 

6 Matt. xxiv. 14. 

Y 



32 2 Missions to the Heathen. 

5- 
Now for the Lord our God 
A Highway is prepar d ; 
Now to the Nations of the Earth 
Thy mighty arm is bared. 

6. 

In India's southern shore, 

Where Satan was adof d, 

They love the Word and Sacraments 

Of Jesus Christ the Lord. 

7- 
The Morians' Land to God 
Shall soon stretch forth her hands, 
x-\nd holy Hallelujahs rise 
From Afric's golden sands. 

8. 
Cheer' d by the Gospel light 
The glad Pacific smiles ; 
That Gospel's glorious light shall gleam 
On all its thousand isles j 

9- 

The Earth from east to west, 
The Earth from sea to sea, 
As with a zone of holy love 
Shall soon encircled be. 



A fissions to the Heathcji. 323 

10. 

And when that AVord is preach'd, 

And when that work is done, 

When Christ is known, and Christ is prais'd 

From ris'n to setting sun ; 

II. 
Then Christ shall come from heav'n ^, 
And call us from the tomb ; 

And all shall see the Judge appear, 
And all shall hear their doom. 

12. 
O everlasting Lord, 
How shall we see Thy face, 
If we have fail'd to spread abroad 
The Gospel of Thy grace ? 

13. 
O endless, endless shame, 
O boundless miser}^ ! 
For none, who have not fought the fight, 
Will share the victory. 

14. 

But O what joys await 
Thy faithful soldiers, Lord, 
A\Tlo have endeavoured to advance 
The Kingdom of Thy Word ! 

" Matt. xxiv. 145 Mark xiv. 9. 
Y 2 



3 24 Missions to the Heathen. 

Unfading crowns and palms 
Thy Saints in heaven shall bear \ 
And all who have Thy Gospel lov'd, 
And foster' d, shall be there. 

1 6. 
They shall in glory stand, 
They shall in glory shine, 
Bright as the starry firmament ^ ; 
They will be ever Thine. 

O therefore bless the Lord, 

With praise and offerings \ 

With heart and hand glad homage pay 

To the great King of kings. 

i8. 
The hand that gives, receives 
More blessings from above ; 
The Sun and Ocean fill the clouds 
That rain down showers of love. 

19. 
To Father, and to Son, 
And Holy Ghost, to Thee, 
May all the World Hosannas sing. 
One God and Persons Three. 

Amen. 

^ Dan. xii. 3. 



Schools. 325 

Hymn 123. 

SCHOOLS ^ 



HEAVENLY Father, send Thy blessing 
On Thy children gather'd here, 
May they all, Thy Name confessing. 

Be to Thee for ever dear ; 
May they be, like Joseph, loving, 
Dutiful, and chaste, and pure ; 
And their faith, like David, proving, 
Stedfast unto death endure. 



2. 

Holy Saviour, who in meekness 

Didst vouchsafe a Child to be, 
Guide their steps, and help their weakness, 

Bless, and make them like to Thee ; 
Bear Thy lambs when they are weary 

In Thine arms, and at Thy breast ; 
Through life's desert, dry and dreary. 

Bring them to Thy heavenly rest. 



9 Tunes: St. John's^ Mercer i6j St. I'homasy Monk 395 
Benediction, Monk 52 j Chichester, Mercer 136. 



326 Charitable Collections, 

3. 
Spread Thy golden pinions o'er them, 

Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, 
Guide them, lead them, go before them, 

Give them peace, and joy, and love ; 
Temples of the Holy Spirit 

May they with Thy glory shine. 
And immortal bliss inherit, 

And for evermore be Thine ! 

Amen. 



Hymn 124. 
charitable collections^ 

I. 

OLORD of heaven, and earth, and sea. 
To Thee all praise and glor}^ be ; 
How shall we show our love to Thee, 
Giver of all ? 

2. 
The golden sunshine, vernal air, 
Sweet flowers and fruits Thy love declare, 
Where harvests ripen, Thou art there. 
Giver of all ! 

' Tunes : Troyte^ Monk 170 ; Eternity, S. P. C. K. 57. 
For Hymns for '^ Charitable Collections " see also above, 

Nos. 67 and 74. 



Charitable Colledmis. 327 



3. 

For peaceful homes, and healthful days, 
For all the blessings Earth displays, 
We owe Thee thankfulness and praise, 
Giver of all ! 

4. 
Thou didst not spare Thine only Son, 
But gav'st Him for a world undone. 
And e'en that gift Thou dost outrun. 
And give us all ^. 

5- 
Thou giv'st the Spirit's blessed dower, 
Spirit of life, and love, and power, 
And dost His sevenfold graces shower 
Upon us all. 

6. 
For souls redeem.' d, for sins forgiven, 
For means of grace and hopes of heaven, 
What can to Thee, O Lord, be given, 
AVho givest all % 

7- 
We lose what on ourselves we spend, 
We have as treasure ^\dthout end 
Whatever, Lord, to Thee we lend, 
Who givest all. 

2 Rom. viii. 32. 



328 Thanksgiving for Han^est. 



Whatever, Lord, we lend to Thee, 
Repaid a thousandfold will be ; 
Then gladly will we give to Thee, 
Giver of all ; 

9- 

To Thee, from whom we all derive 
Our life, our gifts, our power to give ; 
O may we ever with Thee live. 
Giver of all! 

Amen. 



Hymn 125. 

thanksgiving for harvest^. 



OUR hearts and voices let us raise, 
In songs of thankfulness and praise. 
Our Heavenly Father's love to bless, 
Which crowns the year with fruitfulness. 



3 Tunes : Melcomhe^ Monk 2 j Truro^ Mercer 148. 

For another '* Hymn for Harvest" see also above, No. 72. 



Thaiiksgivijig for Harvest, 3 29 

2. 
Cheer'd by Thy sun and fostering rain, 
The valleys wave with golden grain, 
The corn-fields teem with ripen'd shocks, 
The stalls with herds, the folds with flocks. 

3- 
For what Thy bounteous hand imparts 
Give us the grace of thankful hearts. 
Hearts which their thankfulness may prove 
By hymns of praise, and gifts of love. 

4- 
O Thou, that art the Harvest's Lord, 
Send forth the Sowers of Thy Word ; 
And may we speed them on the wings 
Of prayers and cheerful offerings. 

5. 

May distant climes Thy Word receive, 
Land after Land, till all believe, 
And bear the fruit that never dies \ 
Till Earth shall bloom like Paradise. 

6. 

Shine on us with Thy glorious face, 
Refresh us with Thy gifts of grace. 
The gifts, which by the Holy Ghost 
Were shed from heaven at Pentecost. 



330 Thanksgivi7ig for Harvest. 

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O may we, like a fruitful field, 
To Thee a rich abundance yield ; 
And, as the fields with harvests wave. 
Rise from the furrows of the grave. 



So, when the Angel-reapers come. 
And Thou shalt keep Thy Harvest-home, 
We in Thy barn may garner'd be, 
Thy heavenly barn, eternally. 

9- 
Praise to our God and Father give. 
The source of love, in whom we live. 
Praise to the Son and Spirit be, 
One only God, and Persons Three. 

Amen. 



INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 



Amid the Doctors of the Law 

Another year has now begun 

As some fair River, from pure fount 

At Thy Transfiguration, Lord 

A Voice amid the thunder's roar 

Awake ! awake ! the Apostle cries 



Behold the Day, the glorious Day (Part IL" 

Belov'd Physician, title true 

Blest be, O Lord, the grace of Love 

Bright beacon on an Island rock 

Buried in heathen darkness lay . 

Cephas and Peter — heaven-taught name 

Daughter of Zion, shout with joy 
Down from the mountain Jesus came . 

Elisha's servant and his staff 



Father of all, in whom we live (Confirmation, Part L) 

Father of lights, to Thee we pray 

Father, we humbly pray ..... 



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80 
24 
116 
33 

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104 

95 

37 
96 

98 

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Five pebbles from the brook 

Four rivers from one holy fount arise . 

From Jesu's eyes beside the grave 

Giver of Law is God's dear Son . 

Glory be to God on high . 

Go show yourselves unto the Priests 

God, when the heavens and earth were made 

Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost 

Hail the woman's promised seed . 

Hallelujah ! Hallelujah ! Hearts to Heaven and 

Hark the sound of holy voices 

Heavenly Father, send Thy blessing . 

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord, God of Hosts 

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord . 

Holy Jesus, Mighty Lord . 

Holy of Holies, awful name 

How blest are hearts which Christ the Lord 

How blessed is the force of prayer 

How blest the days that Angels see 

How dreadful is this place ! God's house 

How fair and pleasant is the sight 

How wondrous and mysterious are 

I need to be baptized of Thee 

In all our wanderings here below • 

In sorrow and distress 

In the wilderness prepare ye for the Lord 

In Thy glorious resurrection 

It will not come, it will not come 



HYMN 

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102 
121 



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Jerusalem, thy Judge will come 



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Lord, for Thy Grace's showers .... 


. 72 


j Lord, may we never, save to One . . • 


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Lord, not for store of worldly wealth . 


. 84 


i Lord, not with poor and paltry gifts 


67 


Lord, Who didst the Prophets teach . 


5 


Man fell from Grace by carnal appetite 


30 


1 Mankind in Adam fell 


. 43 


\ Moses fi-om Sinai brings the Law 


73 


No longer Thou in human form .... 


. 92 


Not bound by chains nor pent in cells . 


• 59 


Not gifts of prophecy can save .... 


68 


O day of rest and gladness ..... 


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113 


O God, in Whose all-searching eye (Part IL) 


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O Jerusalem beloved, joyful morn had dawn'd to thee 


91 


O King of Kings, we Thee adore 


75 


O Lord, how alter'd is the face .... 


64 


j O Lord of heaven, and earth, and sea . 


124 


O Lord, Who didst a Samuel give 


65 


O Lord, Who in Thy love divine 


118 


1 O loving Jesu, for us crucified .... 


. 66 


O Saviour, Who at Nain's gate .... 


78 


O Son of God, Eternal Word .... 


119 


O Thou the Way, the Truth, the Life 


36 


O wondrous love ! that He whose bliss 


63 


On every new-bom babe of earth 


115 


On the dark billows of the world . . . . 


56 


Once all the nations were as one . . . • . 


5^ 


One with a legion of foul fiends possessed 


21 


Our hearts and voices let us raise (Part IIL) . 


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Our hearts and voices let us raise (Harvest) . 


125 



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HYMN 


Peace to this house, O Thou whose way 


112 


Prais'd be Thy holy name, O God 


. . . 83 


Repent, repent, the Baptist cries . 

1 


6 


Saved by Thy blood, the Red Sea pass'd 


. 51 


See He comes, Whom every nation 


2 


See the Conqueror mounts in triumph . 


. 55 


Shall we, the liegemen of the Lord 


. . . 85 


Sing, O sing, this blessed morn . 


. . 8 i 


Son of God, Incarnate Word 


42 and 108 


Songs of thankfulness and praise . 


. 23 


The ark of God in safety rode 


. 117 


The banner of the cross 


. 122 


The crowd throng'd Christ with pressure rud 


e . . 86 


1 The day is come, the solemn day of doom 


3 


1 The Fig-tree near the wayside show'd . 


. 40 


The Galilean Fishers toil . . . . 


7 


i The heavens declare Thy glory. Lord . 


. 15 


The lilies in the field that grow . 


• 77 


The Lord is God, the Lord is God 


. . 69 


The night is dark, the winds are high . 


10 


The sun is sinking in the west (Part L) 


. 34 


The Tribes of Israel revered 


. loi 


The virtues of Thy saints, O Lord 


• 94 


The waters were Thy path (Part III.) . 


• 34 


The winds and billows wildly roar 


20 


The wounds which Jesus once endured 


• 49 


The wounds which Jesus once endured (St. ^. 


"homas) . 89 


There was of old a place . . . . 


26 


They have no wine, Christ's mother said 


. 18 


Thou bidd'st us visit in distress . 


. 53 


Thou hast a Temple founded 


• 79 

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Though days are evil, and as slaves 


. 82 


To all the Saints of God on earth 


9 


To-day, O Lord, the holy James 


. 100 


To-day with bright effulgence shine 


. 90 


To plead for us with His own blood 


. 105 


Touch me not, to Mary said 


. 4S 


Upon the sixth day of the week . 


. 44 , 


We all, God, unrighteous are . 


. 87 


We hear the tolling bell .... 


. 114 


When Abraham upon the wood . 


. 32 


When David and his faithful friends . 


. 71 


When from the body freed by death . 


. 61 1 


When from the city of our God . 


• 74 i 


When the Architect Almighty . 


. 120 


When the Lord of Hosts ascended 


• 57 


When Christ had blest the loaves (Part IL) . 


• 34 


When Thou, O Lord, didst send the Twelve 


. 106 


When two friends on Easter Day 


. 47 


When we the mighty acts of Joshua see 


. 62 


Who is this that comes from Edom 


. 39 


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